Just a quick link of interest - 'Renegade Fanboy' has produced a well thought out analysis of Ten Mistakes that Nokia Made in 2008, calling it an 'automated wake-up call', and drawing on links and articles from around the world. More hits or more misses for Nokia in 2008? This one could run and run....
Read on in the full article.
Quite interesting read(s) , thank you.
The link to your article on James Whatley reminded me -do you have plans to continue with the Desert Island Desktop series?
It was interesting to know what applications other people use - you might even "find" something new in the process, although the series used to make me feel slightly uncomfortable, probably due to all the psycho-analysis 😊
Nokia's biggest mistake is that they just piggy backed a touch layer to the 7 year old S60 stuff, creating a mess (scrolling with/without scroll bars, single/double tap etc.). Palm did the right thing with the Pre, making a touch optimized system from scratch with real innovation (the best multitasking UI on mobile devices).
His article mentions that it looks like we won't have to wait till a June realse of the N97. I've seen no other mention of this on any other site. Where is he getting this information from? I guess MWC will give us the best indication.
I'm not sure I agree with everything on this list - well in a way I do - but it is not always fair to label everything a mistake.
There is a tendency to look at Nokia's activities from the power user point of view... but the people represent a very small part of the market. The majority of power users buy there devices in the first few months after release, but the majority of phones (of a particular device) are sold after this. This has implications for stability and firmware updates.
It also tends to mean there's a focus on high end device. Things like the 6220, E63 and N78/N79 have been rather under appreciated for example. The N96 has taken a hammering from power users (well some of them), but it seems to have sold reasonably well via UK operators.
I actually do think more effort could be made to make better first firmware releases, but there's a balance to be drawn - stability vs release date. The N96 positioning as the highest numbers Nseries might also be considered debatable.
I also think doing beta test like Map 3 makes sense. Yes it is very unstable, but it is labelled as a beta and gives Nokia a chance to collect feedback on it.
Anyway what I do like about these lists is the discussion they generate.