QUOTE(peter32 @ Sep 11 2012, 12:48 AM)
The problem is, despite their hardware ingenuity, they have reached their intellectual saturation point in their software dept.Â
So they will just need to outsource the OS.
No, that's not the issue. They can outsource, they can adopt other OS including Androids. But there's something very weird and wrong, they partner with WP (which is obviously not doing well and dying), and they abort their pre-mature baby (MeeGo), and set death sentence to their Symbian, 1 year before they have any WP device to sell or even show. This move, makes their customer loses hope and jump, which in turn, boost Samseng up to No. 1 slot.
Nokia was never about going single platform and emphasizing on 1 category of customers only. What happen to Nokia? In the past, Nokia is always about reaching to MORE customers, providing devices for different category/types of customers, they have the low end budget series, to Sports series, Rugged series, Designer series, up to the high end tablets for business professionals. Suddenly they went totally opposite direction and off course.
The weirdest part is adopting WP, despite it's not doing well in the market; More weird is, suddenly it's all about WP, as if it's a MS company. The one who benefits from this deal is obviously no other than MS themselves, and ever since the deal with MS, Nokia has lost their No. 1 spot, lost their customers, lost their trust, removed many of their employees, gain even more bad reputation from their Lumias, lost their technologies (e.g. Nokia Maps, etc).
Now imagine if they adopted Android? Imagine if they go multi-platform like Samseng, Sony, HTC. They can still have WP who says they can't? If they go multi-platform, high chances, they're still No. 1 today and consumers will have many choices of phones, and today's PureView will definitely NOT suffer the same issues as Lumia's PureView.
This post has been edited by Andy214: Sep 11 2012, 10:59 AM