In a previous post I asked whether Nokia’s strategy is dependent on a “built-in assumption that end users are inherently stupid.” Nokia confirmed that this is indeed the case.
In the recent series of exposés on Nokia’s new strategy I sought to paint a background for what caused such a dramatic decision: A history of previous Microsoft “strategic alliances” in mobile brought Microsoft to a level of desperation The question of how many horses are in the race coupled with operator feedback on what … Continue reading “Nokia's Burning Ships strategy”
In the last quarter Nokia sold 28.3 million Symbian phones. The average selling price was €156 or approximately $210. That price was down 17% year-on-year. According to the company, The 17% year-on-year decline in our converged mobile devices ASPs was mainly driven by general price erosion and an increase in the proportion of lower-priced converged … Continue reading “The price of Windows Phone: Nokia's evaporating smartphone share”
The juxtaposition of HP’s strategy of increased independence and Nokia’s new strategy of increased dependence can’t be more striking. HP is probably Microsoft’s biggest customer. As the largest licensee of Windows it probably generated more revenue for Microsoft than any other company. The fact that HP invested in a new operating system for its mobile … Continue reading “Changing places: Microsoft trades HP for Nokia”
Predictions on Nokia’s new platform strategy: new OS for the US | asymco. Here are my predictions from January 27 for the February 11 Nokia strategy announcement followed by the actual quotes from Nokia’s press release:
In a recent post I pointed out that Apple’s R&D was about 2.2% of sales in the last quarter. Bernstein took a look at the R&D for Nokia and presented a chart showing the difference between the mobile industry players in terms of total expenditure on R&D. I took inspiration from that to plot the … Continue reading “Nokia employs as many people to develop its smartphone software as Apple does to develop all its products”
Nokia must compete on an ecosystem to ecosystem basis. In addition to great device experiences we must build, capitalize and/or join a competitive ecosystem. The ecosystem approach we select must be comprehensive and cover a wide range of utilities and services that customers expect today and anticipate in the future. Nokia CEO Discusses Q4 2010 … Continue reading “Predictions on Nokia's new platform strategy: new OS for the US”
More than 400 000 new developers in past 12 months; 92 developers each top 1 million download mark; 1.5 million downloads of Qt software development toolkits via Nokia – Show Press Release. See the following chart comparing Ovi with iTunes Music and iTunes Apps download rates.
Several readers pointed out that in my discussion on the market share of modular vs. inter-dependent market shares for smartphones, Nokia was incorrectly classified as having an inter-dependent software architecture since the Symbian platform is/was a modular component. The problem is that the relationship between Symbian and Nokia is not that of independent modules. Nominally, … Continue reading “Were Nokia and Symbian always inter-dependent?”
Today’s chart: the percent of smartphones as part of the total phones sold for three vendors vendors that have traditionally sold a large portion of voice-oriented phones. As these vendors switch to a higher mix of smartphones, their distribution network will ensure a continuing surge in overall smartphone penetration. Most of Samsung’s increase has come … Continue reading “Samsung's smartphones make up 10% of total sold. Nokia is at 30% and Motorola is over 40%.”
