Investors Not Impressed
my background
Nov 2010 Samsung focus ( from at&t )
Jun 2012 Nokia 900 (off of craigslist )
Overall I like the new Lumia's as I like the previous version enough to buy it off-contract. Yes I do wish the 920 had 920 but other than that no major gripes
However, I have posted before about NOKIA/MS execution and announcing things that are not ready and it seems like the investors were less than impressed with NOKIA/MS
NOKIA 820/920 Announcments:
It lacked any meaningful surprise
It lacked any carrier announcements ( is the 920 a global phone or just at&t ) is it because they are still trying to get carriers to use the device? Remeber Palm Pre Plus got screwed by Verizon when they decided to go with Motorola
It lacked any specific launch date
It lacked any information on pricing
MS Windows Phone 8 announcments
It repeated the same message they gave in June...."We are not showing WP8 user features now, will show at a later date"
It repeated the same People Hub message
It did show how the photo lens feature would work
It gave no release date on the WP8 SDK ( update, special member status devs get access to this )
So I ask,
What is so hard about saying how much your device cost? In the US most smart phones cost $200 so what is NOKIA thinking maybe $400? or $500. It cant be that hard to figure out what your device cost and TALK ABOUT IT DURING THE PRESS CONFERENCE! Motorola just did with their new device today..users can even pre-order!. Apple (%$#@) always seem to be able to figure out how much their devices cost. It just seems dis-organized to not know the simplest things
Whats going on with the carriers? Did they not know Sept 5th was going on? Does Nokia lack the leverage to get carriers to support their devices. Maybe Verizon doesn't like the deal AT&T got or maybe something else...eitherway, Nokia should have gotten this stuff straighten out BEFORE they had the press conference
Why is it so hard to get specifics on the launch date. Is MS keeping the release date a secret? Or...
...is there some trouble with WP8? What are the reasons for hiding the end users features? Hiding features from iOS/Android...not likely
By day I am a software developer (c++, c#) and I know how the software development life cycle works. A major company like Apple/Google can not implement features that MS would reveal on Sept 5th and then implement them in 2-3 weeks so it could be in iOS6 or android 4.1.X
This is assuming that iOS and the next version of Android haven't hit the 'pens down phase'
The point is, MS is not hiding features from iOS/Android as Jelly Bean is out and iOS 6 is 'feature complete' at this time. Now for iOS or Android (k) they could copy features but that would be next year after the holidays
my background
Nov 2010 Samsung focus ( from at&t )
Jun 2012 Nokia 900 (off of craigslist )
Overall I like the new Lumia's as I like the previous version enough to buy it off-contract. Yes I do wish the 920 had 920 but other than that no major gripes
However, I have posted before about NOKIA/MS execution and announcing things that are not ready and it seems like the investors were less than impressed with NOKIA/MS
NOKIA 820/920 Announcments:
It lacked any meaningful surprise
It lacked any carrier announcements ( is the 920 a global phone or just at&t ) is it because they are still trying to get carriers to use the device? Remeber Palm Pre Plus got screwed by Verizon when they decided to go with Motorola
It lacked any specific launch date
It lacked any information on pricing
MS Windows Phone 8 announcments
It repeated the same message they gave in June...."We are not showing WP8 user features now, will show at a later date"
It repeated the same People Hub message
It did show how the photo lens feature would work
It gave no release date on the WP8 SDK ( update, special member status devs get access to this )
So I ask,
What is so hard about saying how much your device cost? In the US most smart phones cost $200 so what is NOKIA thinking maybe $400? or $500. It cant be that hard to figure out what your device cost and TALK ABOUT IT DURING THE PRESS CONFERENCE! Motorola just did with their new device today..users can even pre-order!. Apple (%$#@) always seem to be able to figure out how much their devices cost. It just seems dis-organized to not know the simplest things
Whats going on with the carriers? Did they not know Sept 5th was going on? Does Nokia lack the leverage to get carriers to support their devices. Maybe Verizon doesn't like the deal AT&T got or maybe something else...eitherway, Nokia should have gotten this stuff straighten out BEFORE they had the press conference
Why is it so hard to get specifics on the launch date. Is MS keeping the release date a secret? Or...
...is there some trouble with WP8? What are the reasons for hiding the end users features? Hiding features from iOS/Android...not likely
By day I am a software developer (c++, c#) and I know how the software development life cycle works. A major company like Apple/Google can not implement features that MS would reveal on Sept 5th and then implement them in 2-3 weeks so it could be in iOS6 or android 4.1.X
- They would first have to review all their current feature request in their que BEFORE the MS press conference and then add the MS features and rank them.
- The UI/UX team would have to approve any changes.
- Then they would have to assign the feature to a development team.
- Then a test plan would have to be created before coding. Design documents would have to be approved.
- Then the changes would have to be added to the source code base and branches merged
- Then test AND THEN regression testing so that no previous feature that used to work...still works.
This is assuming that iOS and the next version of Android haven't hit the 'pens down phase'
The point is, MS is not hiding features from iOS/Android as Jelly Bean is out and iOS 6 is 'feature complete' at this time. Now for iOS or Android (k) they could copy features but that would be next year after the holidays
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