Hello Marketing Manager, the problem is much more complicated so saying
"and I don't think the decision makers need more input from the Maemo community" " hurts Maemo community and customers Nokia is lossing millions, is loosing markets and Maemo, Maemo community was really a great chance for Nokia to make something special. Today chances are lost. It's too late. Just read Bloomberg and market analysis and stock reports. Chances for sucess and to be No.1 with Maemo success has gone forever to Samsung, Apple and emerging Google cell phones. We should play fair. Maemo community was a great chance for a great victory by Nokia. Unsupported, with no leadership, no challenges set ended in frustration and half-finished products like low quality gps navigation, no-cell-phone Maemo. At the same time Samsung, Apple, Google made very fast progress with emerging technologies, multitouch products, high-quality integrated navigation. I can't blame you for a defeat, but frankly speaking, you showed no interest to make Maemo developers the Champions - world-leaders in emerging technologies and products, giving handicap to Apple and Samsung to make much faster progress. Lost chance by Nokia is not my personal opinion. Lost chance is market analysis published by Bloomberg. just what Bloomberg says: " http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aFz3FZ0Qjyd8&refer=home " Nokia plans to introduce touch-screen models this year, and the first devices will aim at the ``volume market,'' the company said in July. ``The company is building up its portfolio, which is a bit old-fashioned,'' Schroder said. Apple began selling the iPhone 3g model in July. Chief Executive Steve Jobs plans to get the Web-surfing phone into 70 markets by the end of the year, up from six earlier this year. " not to mention " Nokia Stock Falls the Most Since April on Market Share Forecast By Juho Erkheikki Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Nokia Oyj, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, fell the most in almost five months in Helsinki trading after forecasting a drop in third-quarter market share because competitors slashed prices and a new handset was delayed. Nokia fell 9.6 percent. While demand will be hurt by ``weaker consumer confidence in multiple markets,'' the Espoo, Finland-based company stuck to a forecast of 10 percent industry growth in 2008. Previously, Nokia had said market share would be about the same as the second quarter's 40 percent. Price-cutting by Samsung Electronics Co. and growing sales of Apple Inc.'s iPhone may be hurting Nokia, according to Matthew Hoffman, an analyst at Cowen & Co. in Boston. Nokia didn't say which competitors cut prices or identify the ``mid-range'' handset that was delayed. ``It's a shocker,'' said Neil Mawston, an associate director at researcher Strategy Analytics Ltd. in Milton Keynes, England. ``Everybody is scrapping for volume in the market, and it looks like that's caught up with Nokia.'' Nokia fell 1.50 euros to close at 14.02 euros in Helsinki, the biggest drop since April 17. The shares dropped to the lowest in almost three years. The global mobile-phone market probably will rise 10 percent or more this year from the 1.14 billion units sold last year, Nokia reiterated today in a stock exchange statement. Industry sales in the third quarter will also increase from the preceding three months, the company said. " The only chance for success is to have comm unity of developers really integrated with main development strategies and my suggestion to set up Think-Tank made some months ago was the right direction. Wish you success anyway. (and pls don't delete my post and don't take it personally) Darius http://www.tinyurl.com/iDarius --- On Fri, 5/9/08, Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Moderator speak up - is maemo multitouch thread ok or not > To: "ext Simon Pickering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], maemo-developers@maemo.org > Date: Friday, 5 September, 2008, 9:09 AM > Hi, > > ext Simon Pickering wrote: > > I'm not sure anything we say will affect this, > though putting together good > > business cases to say how multi-touch will be > beneficial (and being explicit > > about how) would probably be a good start (in the same > way that we have been > > justifying why the PowerVR driver should be released, > etc., on the wiki). > > The cases are different. The PowerVR issue could be solved > with software > for the current hardware while the multitouch you are > talking about here > depends on a different hardware. Hardware decisions are > made at another > level inside Nokia and I don't think the decision > makers need more input > from the Maemo community in addition to all the sources of > input they > already have. > > -- > Quim Gil > marketing manager, open source > Maemo Software @ Nokia Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
