Post date: Mar 01, 2012 1:26:58 PM
Shades of the Walking Dead! Meego being a "dead end" platform, is still out-selling Winphone 7.
Needless to say, the implications here are very far reaching. For one thing, I can only "assume" that Nokia did not put as much bang into promoting Meego as it did Winphone 7. This means that even without as much marketing, Meego outsold Winphone 7. So the question is ... what would happen if Meego had been promoted in the first place?
Some will point out that the Winphone 7 Lumia has been available about 1/2 of the last quarter of 2011 whereas the Meego N9 was available the whole quarter. But guys, we are comparing a "dead end" platform with something that Nokia has said that it would spare no effort promoting. Have u seen a N9 advertisement? I've seen tons of Lumia advertisements and don't even remember a N9 advert. For Nokia to suffer the termination of the Meego platform, nothing than the unqualified total success of the Winphone 7 Lumia series over any of Nokia's other platforms would justify it.
Then the next question would be "why did Nokia investors have to suffer a drastic drop in Nokia share price for the Windows announcement when it would have won every other way with focusing on the launch of Meego?"
Either way, the current management in Nokia better take a serious double-take. It is already clear that people who buy Nokia, like people who buy Apple, appreciate the technology and innovation put into their equipment. In fact, this is probably a key reason why they buy into these brand names in the first place.
Now what about Nokia's new 40 megapixel SYMBIAN phone? Where is that going?
Remember "Lost in Space"? Does not compute. Warning. Warning.
Symbian is declining faster than anticipated.
Winphone 7 is outselling Symbians.
Why put in the latest and greatest hardware technology on yet another "dead end" platform?
Doesn't it make sense that if Nokia can sell n PureView 808's on Symbian, it could sell n1 of em on Winphone 7 and n2 of em on Meego where n < n1 < n2?
If I read Nokia strategic direction right, why not put it into the Lumia series FIRST?
Some may say that it is right up the road, but that totally disregards the resources and investment required to bring the phone to market. From the start, Nokia said that one of its key directions would be to consolidate the number of platforms in order to save on resources. That is one reason why 4000 were also retrenched!
http://www.itwire.com/virtualisation/46782-nokia-to-sack-4000-a-shift-3000-and-symbian-to-accenture
Does not compute. Warning. Warning.