Comments on: The iPhone Invasion: What Nokia Can Do

By: AC

AC — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:02:53 +0000

Alex, thanks so much for your incredibly insightful comment.

On a related note, you know what I love about cheese? It gets all melty when you melt it. Yeah, that cheese is something else…

Nice spam blog, by the way; for the sake of my legitimate readers I’ve removed the link from your comment — hope that’s okay.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:22:46 +0000

That is a neat perspective on what Nokia can do steal some spotlight from Apple. Being an owner the iPhone, I think the most “enjoyable” feature of the phone is the multi-touch. It’s one thing to have a touch screen phone; but when you can use two fingers? That’s insane.

By: AC

AC — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:19:28 +0000

Ah, so Nokia is listening… Excellent!

By: runnny

runnny — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:12:07 +0000

Elias, you don’t need to have an impressive Nokia phone to become an S60 ambassador. In fact it doesn’t even have to be a Nokia! It helps to have an S60-powered device – and that currently means an LG, Samsung or a Nokia. S60 is an open platform, remember?!

Great stuff, AC. Keep up the good work!

By: AC

AC — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:49:30 +0000

Alex, your intimate understanding of the mobile handset business is astonishing — with Nokia selling about as many handsets each and every week as Apple has in the past year, those stupid Finns clearly don’t know what they’re doing…

By: Alex G

Alex G — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:01:45 +0000

Don’t waste your breath… if anyone had the mental capacity to at least follow apple’s success, they would’ve done it.

By: nomadismocelular

nomadismocelular — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:14:41 +0000

Excellent post, Andrew.

I have been writing about technology, mobile world, trends, mobile computing for several years, and I think you’re straight on the point. I have just posted a text at http://nomadismocelular.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/as-estastisticas-no-planeta-celular/ about statistics in cellular planet. There’s really many things that Nokia and the other players have to do.

Best regards,

Mary Jo Zilveti

By: AC

AC — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:41:34 +0000

There’s a little tidbit in this Nokia Q & A with SMS Text News, specifically:

Q: What about syncing services?
A: No comment on Ovi offering…

Interesting…

By: Ed Miller

Ed Miller — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:10:12 +0000

AC:

Bravo! I’m an Apple fan, but I’d like to see someone challenge the iPhone with a complete package because Apple’s not doing something with it that they’ve done really well in the past.

Apple changed the music industry by combining a user-friendly piece of hardware with the user-friendly iTunes app, and they’ve become the 800-lb gorilla of the music industry, changing how people buy and listen to music. Apple made the app work for anyone, with cross-platform access, video, podcasts, etc. Could Microsoft, with its might, combat the iPod with the Zune/Windows Media Player? Nope — the app is the worst-designed media player ever, and Apple already had the app available for Windows users.

Right now, Apple is most vulnerable in that they haven’t created a killer app to go with the iPhone. If another smartphone maker were to come up with a free, user-friendly, cross-platform, all-in-one, plug-and-play app that allows you to make your phone an extension of your home computer and vice versa, they may have a chance of beating Apple at its own game.

Apple hasn’t come up with the killer app for the iPhone yet, which, to me, is odd. Microsoft thought up Outlook over 10 years ago when they expanded their Mail program to include tasks, calendars, etc., so why do Mac (and iPhone) users still have separate apps for calendars, mail, and contacts? (I’ve been debating going over to the dark side and using Entourage as my PIM on my Macs just so I don’t have to keep opening 3 apps every day (and I’m not even syncing with a phone).

Cheers,

By: Sachendra Yadav

Sachendra Yadav — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:21:10 +0000

Good advise, let’s hope Nokia’s listening… more importantly because Android and LiMO phones are around the corner as well.

The one thing Nokia has going for them is they’ve realized they need to be a software services company, just being a handset manufacturer won’t cut it any more.