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GMW-5610 t1_ja87kfp wrote

Honestly, they should just drop the ball on smartphones. Thr current models are an embarrassment and an insult to what Nokia used to be.

I will forever hate Microsoft for driving the brand to shit and for actively sabotaging and killing a much needed third mobile OS. MeeGo kicked ass and was way better than fucking Windows Mobile.

So, so ahead in many aspects (design, gestures).

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shinra528 t1_ja8joam wrote

From everything I heard, Windows phones we’re pretty great; just no one was buying them.

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duane534 t1_ja8r40m wrote

BB10 was, too. Magic Eraser has nothing on what BB10 did, almost ten years ago, but we live in an app-driven world.

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typesett t1_ja9dzmh wrote

so the same thing that msoft used for Windows worked against them in the mobile phone wars

who had all the software? apple and android

if they dont have the apps at the time they were not pretty great. 'pretty great'? at what? like it was great because it worked? because it ran office? at the time to be great, it needed what people wanted. the latest apps, great camera, new models every year

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my 2 cents. i love options for consumers so we are just talking about the post-mortem but competition is great

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shinra528 t1_ja9t2ym wrote

I don't disagree with any part of your analysis.

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GMW-5610 t1_ja9ouwq wrote

The Metro UI, for how neat it was on mobile, was inevitably associated with the shittiest desktop release of all time. The reputation problem was clear.

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DavidBrooker t1_ja8jnp1 wrote

Nokia hasn't made a phone in about a decade. Anything with their name on it in that timeframe was a licensing deal. They dropped smartphones a long time ago, and they don't think the phones with their licensed branding hurts their core brand in core market of network infrastructure.

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