Nokia Says Putting Android on Phones is Like Peeing Your Pants for Warmth

[guanyu210379]

Definitely old and no significant improvement.

 

[doron]

So I guess getting an iPhone is like pooing your pants just to make the chair a little more mushy and comfortable

 

[chase_tm]

Nokia would probably increase their bottom-line if they did something to "really" improve on Symbian.

Otherwise, comments like these just sound like sour-graping on a technological level.

 

[vic20]

Well I can say that from a hardware company's perspective, wanting customers to identify with the phone's brand rather than the OS makes sense.

It's the same in the computer industry. I'm sure Dell or HP wouldn't want their customers referring to computers as Windows.

The average consumer has no clue as to what to call their non-iphone or non-blackberry. Just walk into a store's mobile section and listen near the phone section for a few minutes. You'll "my Telus phone", "my android", "my samsung", "my galaxy" all for one damn phone.

It sounds like Nokia wants to avoid this situation and have the recogonition that iPhones and Blackberrys have.

Sure flooding the market with cheap phones and using the popular OS of the time can bring you big market share, but it won't get you Apple like stock values. A smaller loyal market with big margins may be what Nokia really wants.

Of course without a great built-in app store, one catchy name for all their phones and a solid idiot proof OS and tons of marketing this could be one tough nut to crack.

 

[wolfseeker2828]

orientated? really?

 

[Guest]

Well I guess I will not buy a new Nokia after all... pity, they make very good hardware.

 

[Onus]

When my "new every two" was up at the beginning of the month, Nokia wasn't even on my radar, although I had owned (and liked) one of their phones many years ago.
Funny thing is, I know there are lots of "Android" phones, but I wanted a "Droid," so the brand recognition took me straight to Motorola not to the O/S. Licensing "Droid" from Lucas was a VERY smart move on their part.
(So far, I'm quite happy with the Droid 2.)

 

[cinergy]

[citation][nom]roshith_k[/nom]I almost forgot what symbian OS was. Its time nokia moved on. There was a time when I preferred Nokia over samsung, motorola, LG or anything else.. but now things have changed.[/citation]

How has it changed? Apple provides more bling bling? That's pretty much all they got.

 

[scrumworks]

[citation][nom]Carlangas[/nom]Well I guess I will not buy a new Nokia after all... pity, they make very good hardware.[/citation]

If Nokia would rename their OS to "Cyborg" would you buy it then again?

 

[awood28211]

Haha. brand recognition.. I guess no one knows who Dell or HP is simply because the both come with the same OS...

 

[isamuelson]

Well that settles it! Now I'm definitely getting a droid! 😉

Actually, I was already getting one before this clown had to open up his mouth and spout out something so immature and idiotic, that it just makes it all the more "fun" to stick it to him and get a droid.

BTW, I never even HEARD of their OS. Just goes to show how clueless this person is.

 

[kikireeki]

That's is why the majority of netbooks, laptops and PC makers are losing, because they all use Windows as a standard os!
yeah nice call Nokia!

 

[kikireeki]

[citation][nom]joytech22[/nom]Nokia Says Putting Android on Phones is Putting us out of business.[/citation]

literally:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/telecoms/5164801/Nokia-reports-historic-quarterly-loss-as-mobile-sales-collapse.html

 

[isamuelson]

I had a Nokia phone once.



The operative word being "once".

 

[kikireeki]

No wonder then:

http://www.articlesbase.com/business-ideas-articles/nokia-loss-of-57-billion-reasons-behind-jiemi-3297216.html

 

[Guest]

Doing a good job at Nokia is like peeing in your pants when wearing a dark suit, no body notices but it gives you a warm feeling.

 

[g00fysmiley]

its a good point about brand recognition. but then again some brand recognition overtakes what somethign is... for example when you sneeze you you ask for a kleenex or a tissue... most people use the two synonymously. or in some cases a brand recognition liek band-aid overtook the actual term adhesive strip. its a powerful marketing tool but the droid phones are going fo rthe opposite known as what they are not who made by so much. not a bad thing necessarily but does make the transition between brands more likely... me i liek palm phones and the only wayay to get another palm is with a new palm... now with a droid you could have an htc and go to a motorola and you still have a droid thus the company loses a customer who still sees themself as being a loyal driod user.. on the other side of the coin they might gain customers this way as well

 

[foxmulder_ms]

This is like saying every pc producer should have their own operating system....

 

[foxmulder_ms]

Also, I have to say nokia phones are generally great.

 

[Pyroflea]

Looks like somebody regrets the decision not to [at least] partially adopt Android, and is now trying to convince himself it was the right thing to do.