In the late 1990s , Nokia forebode the hereafter of mobile : it spend millions on research , and even evidence soupcon - CRT screen devices that closely resembled today iPhones and Androids . So why is it only now making a dent on the smartphone marketplace ?
The Wall Street Journal has a nice articledescribing the decision - make processes behind Nokia ’s poorly - doom last tenner . It lead off by set the vista , identify the kinds of devices that were beingresearched by Nokia over ten geezerhood ago :
More than seven years before Apple rolled out the iPhone , the Nokia team usher a phone with a color touch screen set above a undivided clit . The twist was shown locating a restaurant , playing a racing biz and ordering lip rouge . In the late nineties , Nokia on the QT explicate another alluring product : a pill calculator with a wireless connexion and touch screen - all features today of the hot - sell Apple iPad .
But , alas , having a prototype mathematical product up your arm and selling it to consumer are two wildly different concepts . Getting between the two requires savvy direction foresightedness — something that the WSJ excuse wassadly lacking at Nokia :
Nokia really develop the form of gadget that consumer are gobbling up today . It just did n’t lend them to market . In a strategic blunder , it shifted its focal point from smartphones back to basic sound right as the iPhone upend the food market .
The answer ? At least two abandoned operating systems and a ginormous tack of letters patent , which are now prize at around $ 6 billion and make up almost the entire economic value of the company , follow by a mad scrabble to enter the smartphone race again . While Nokia onlyfell from the top pip as the world ’s tumid God Almighty of mobile phonesearlier this year , that was only because it had a monumental head start .
https://gizmodo.com/samsung-overtakes-nokia-as-the-worlds-biggest-phone-man-5905636
Those error almost ten year ago have cost Nokia dear . But now , with its unexampled Lumia range and championing of WinPho , it’sfinally daring to be different . Let ’s trust it ’s not too little , too late . [ Wall Street Journal ]
https://gizmodo.com/nokia-lumia-900-review-this-might-save-windows-phone-5898783
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