I think many of Nokia's users, whether they use Symbian, Maemo, S40 or a combination thereof, have been extremely concerned by today's announcements.
It would seem that Nokia has become an adjunct of Redmond.
As per Google's barbed comments yesterday, I feel WP7 is a Turkey; a half-baked one at that. It's a glorified and under-featured feature-phone O/S. Consumers seem to recognise this, sales having been poor in the US and dismal everywhere else. Without Symbian or Meego, where would that leave Nokia in the smartphone market?
Whilst Nokia's direction seems to be governed by MS strategy at the moment, the board is not entirely composed of stooges (at least not yet). As per today's fairly drastic falls in Nokia's stock on world markets, many investors are in a state of extreme disquiet over today's news.
What can we do? We as a community can continue to support and buy Maemo / Meego, Symbian and S40 products, whilst boycotting any future WP7 phones with Nokia label. Grass-roots campaigns can be exceedingly successful. Elop can't ignore the market forever, and if he does, he'll be sacked.
I've registered the following domains:
www.supportnokia.org
www.supportnokia.com
www.supportnokia.net
People should contact me if they would like to support this idea and have useful skills. I'm neither a coder, nor do I have access to (good) free web-hosting, so others will need to take care of that whilst other individuals manage the project.
supportnokia wrote:What can we do? We as a community can continue to support and buy Maemo / Meego, Symbian and S40 products, whilst boycotting any future WP7 phones with Nokia label. Grass-roots campaigns can be exceedingly successful. Elop can't ignore the market forever, and if he does, he'll be sacked
I think you're on to a loser with this supportnokia.
Imagine that you are looking to buy a high end smartphone next month...
Would you buy an outdated Maemo phone?
There isn't a MeeGo phone available until at least the end of the year and maybe, not even then.
So that leaves the current crop of Symbian smartphones which on the one hand will still be supported for a time, has been written off by Nokia's CEO, Stephen Elop, as not being suitable for their high end smartphones.. "...Symbian is proving to be an increasingly difficult environment in which to develop to meet the continuously expanding consumer requirements...". Coupled with the fact that the already dwindling number of developers for symbian will be turning their attentions to other platforms now.
So which of those options would you choose to spend �500/$800/€600 on to force Nokia to keep symbian on smartphones (bearing in mind it will still be used on mid and low end handsets and franchised)?
Someone needs to setup a facebook group calling for the immediate sacking of stephen elop.
It's not too late to start acting now but might be too late in 6 months time.
Together we can save Symbian and the hundreds of employees who have worked hard to maintain Symbian at the level it has been
I'm afraid it's a "done deal".
He's got the backing of the Nokia board... hell! he may have even been brought in by Nokia because of his Microsoft connection to help facilitate just such an "alliance".
Looking at Windows Mobile7 and Nokia's symbian^3 sales, this strikes me as a marriage of desperation... sink or swim!
Seperately they both looked as though they might sink.
At least it buys them both some time to see if Google's , Vic Gundotra's, comment proves correct...
"Two turkeys do not make an eagle"
MontyN95 wrote:Someone needs to setup a facebook group calling for the immediate sacking of stephen elop.
Why complain about it here and hoping that someone else will do something about it, instead of doing it for yourself, if you feel strongly about this? Doesn't take you more than 2 minutes to set it up on FB yourself.
Anyway, why do you think that'd help? What difference would it make? Do you think that institutional controlling shareholders of a major corporation are seriously influenced by Facebook or other internet petitions of a few upset users in any measurable way?
Supporting is one thing... protesting is diferent
As a business owner I tell you this: _ NOKIA decision was based on facts&figures and since 4?years ago the platform was not market competitive and shareholders are looking for profit and positive results.
Also the solutions from r&d are visioanary and ''may be''few years ahead of market requests...and all today's platforms have + and - and the smartphone era is incipient... They had to came up with a strategy
I call it a smart move and symbian should reinvent himself. Nokia left a door open for future 'propietary platforms'
Sometimes is good to return to basics and evaluate your go...
So i think that support means encouragement and also a overview of possible plus and minuses of the actions ....
as i digerated alot of intel i say the future is bright for all platform users ahead.... We will see alot of movements, ups and downs, rises and declines.
wish you all a pleasant journey
The way I would support Nokia would be with my wallet. The only way Nokia will get my support is if they come up with a device that I feel is worth lightening my wallet for. Althought I trust Nokia to make a very good piece of hardware, they have lost my trust in making a smartphone that is functional as a whole.
I have recently given my "support" to HTC due to my poor experience with the N97. I probably won't be in the market for a new phone for 2 years. This time frame will be beyond what Elop calls "transition years" for Nokia. The window of opportunity for Nokia to regain my support will be open then and we'll see if they are deserving of my support at that time.
Stuntman wrote:The way I would support Nokia would be with my wallet. I have recently given my "support" to HTC due to my poor experience with the N97. I probably won't be in the market for a new phone for 2 years. This time frame will be beyond what Elop calls "transition years" for Nokia. The window of opportunity for Nokia to regain my support will be open then and we'll see if they are deserving of my support at that time.
This gives the answer that fasing out symbian till other platform will raise is corect...