I've been with Nokia for about 6 years now and still stick to it. Platform opennes gives nokia a much better image indeed. However, I'm not sure if all end users care about it. - Sasha Kovaliov = ♂♥♫☺ via FriendFeed MT Plugin

iPhone will remain the top choice in high-end devices but it's naive to believe that Internet mobile device market will be limited to high-end devices. The post on AllAboutSymbian (link below) talks about a 90 Euro Nokia phone with Opera Mini (desktop style browsing experience) and also mentions that WebKit(full featured desktop class browser) will be a standard in this class of devices soon. So although iPhone will always lead high-end/high-cost device, Nokia's strategy clearly is to make the Internet mobile device affordable to mass market and play in high volumes. http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/feature... - Sachendra via FriendFeed MT Plugin

Not sure you can say 'iPhone will always lead high-end/high-cost device' because a)iPhone aint that high cost and b)won't take long for Nokia and others to build out to the quality of implementation. And for the hundreds of millions of users who won't yet have seen an iPhone, these next generation phones will be v. attractive and available. I suspect the iPhone obsession is a fruit of some tight online cliques, but even if not, competition is a good thing and will bring benefits all round ... - Ivan Pope via twhirl

I think Apple will settle for a Mac-like presence in the phone market; the most lucrative 5% of the market. Their vertical integration model won't scale much beyond that on a global basis IMO. But 5% of the market is a phenomenal business..perhaps in the region of $30bn revenue a year. Let the other vendors fight for the scraps on the lower margin models. - Jamie

the mac market and its 3rd party software support are simply too rich with innovation for nokia or rimm to ignore - much tougher call & challenge than any one can see today ... there is no meaningful (value-add // business // ROI) difference between 3G mobile devices & laptops in a technical sense - only demographics & marketing. this is not tube amps versus solid state - this is a world of innovative software & hardware design. yes patentable stuff too. the incumbents haven't a real clue - look at the failure of DVD-audio/SACD & the way-off call that no one would view video on devices the size of an iPod. new times, bandwidth matters most ... now "willingness to pay" is front & center ... - Wes Schadenfreud via FriendFeed MT Plugin

more examples : what was that game platform nokia does? how does that compare with nintendo ds? how about investment in loudeye for sound recording encoding business? DRM investments?a dent in iTunes? what about RIM failing to settle with NTP in a timely (prudent) manner & then paying $300+ mil in patents 1st quarter 2008? percentage of google search coming from iPhones? youtube success on the iPhone platform? times are a changing & hopefully the gov'ment doesn't come in and prevent new inventors & entrepreneurs from pushing this whole mobile "thing" up up & away ... It is the innovation not marketshare that matters ... cheers - Wes Schadenfreud via FriendFeed MT Plugin

Nokia N95 has far more features than iPhone. And just look at the number of apps there are on the market for Nokia – they do all the job needed, and it doesn't matter whether the platform is open or closed. In the end we've got two devices and one of them clearly is a status toy, while the other one does the job. Luckily people are not yet so stupid to just want to follow trends, so Nokia's share is still above 40%. They just shouldn't follow the trends that Apple set and continue working in their own direction. Lots of people have pointed out already it's not about the touchscreens, it's about solutions. But Nokia is going in this direction already. While Apple is creating the hype about its new super device, Nokia is quietly buying out useful internet services and integrates them into millions of its handsets. They're going to win and the greedy Apple will just be an outsider again. - Dmitry Paranyushkin via FriendFeed MT Plugin

Hello there, I know that everyone is always screaming about which device is better then the other. But sorry, I don't think there's one device which fits everyone.. Me for example I'm an media and content maker so I go for the Nokia N82, but if you are a content user, it is a very valid point to go for the iPhone, although they've got the worst carriers to choose from.. That is another point, they might be able to sell actually a lot more, if they would leave the idea behind that a phone is only available on a certain amount of selected mobile phone carriers. And then for everyone in here, why do you target Nokia?? First have a look at the devices from LG, SonyEricsson and Motorola (which is slowly but surely dying). Something else, was Motorola not the last american company who took Nokia on with their Razr.. ay, something went wrong there.. hahahaha.. Next time I might read this blog on an iPhone, but for now I'm totally happy with using my Nokia.. - Jaap Willem via FriendFeed MT Plugin

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