Re: Computerworld article
Tony/Brad, I reviewed the article as well and came to the same conclusion. Nokia is a smaller presence in the U.S. than elsewhere because of its small product footprint in the CDMA handset business. WIMAX will provide a chance for Nokia to become a major if not dominant participant in the U.S. mobile device market as it evolves over the next 10 years. No doubt, this is why Nokia has teamed with Sprint/Clearwire on Xhom. Sprint has to solve its fundamental cost/quality problem of having two networks with two technologies, one of which is highly proprietary (Qualcomm CDMA), and one of which is that and highly obsolete as well (Motorola Iden). By committing to an all IP all the time network buildout based on Wimax, Sprint/ Clearwire may very well become the first major operator worldwide to have a mobile network that instantiates what is perhaps the most significant requirement of 4g networks. Ericsson on the other hand clearly wants to kill off WIMAX in favor of its instantiation of LTE^1 which Ericsson would also like to see as the dominant technology for the upcoming 700 MHZ FCC auction in the U.S. 1. http://rcrnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070926/FREE/70926002/1014 Best Regards, John Holmblad Acadia Secure Networks *serving the SmartDigital^TM home, entrepreneurial enterprise, and emerging network service provider markets*** * * Tony Maro wrote: On 9/30/07, *Brad Midgley* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys More than any nationalist agenda, I think the guy is just trying to posit an unlikely outcome--a single playing sewing up what has been a fragmented market. He then tossed together some weak subjective evidence he thought would support it. Brad I completely agree- he's just trying to find ways to say that Apple will pwn the world. However, he does link to the FCC reports for the next gen Internet tablet, which was a nice surprise for me. What Nokia lacked with the n800 was really just US marketing if you ask me. I had never heard of it until I stumbled on some Slashdot or Digg comment that mentioned it. That's why I bought it. I never saw one in a store, never saw an ad, never saw an online article before that, and it's been out for months. -- Tony Maro http://www.maro.net/ossramblings.php ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
RE: Computerworld article
I notice that this is a US publication, so it's hardly going to be impartial regarding a non-US company, especially when they've got a home-grown, non-Microsoft-stable company (Apple) to talk about. In any case, this is probably the most difficult industry of all in which to make accurate predictions. Who really knows which piece of kit will really gain grass-roots support? Everyone hopes they've got the winning formula, but nobody knows for certain. David Hazel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony Maro Sent: 29 September 2007 08:52 To: maemo-dev List Subject: Computerworld article Linked on Slashdot, so likely others have seen this already... http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicar ticleId=9039659 From the article: -- The Federal Communications Commission recently approved a new minitablet, nonphone device from Nokia that supports Bluetooth, WLAN and GPS. The approval was branded as confidential, so only the sketchiest of details are available on the product, which will almost certainly ship this year. I'm not sure Nokia has the right stuff to compete in the nonphone market. For starters, the company has trouble focusing on individual products and tends to scatter its energy and resources across its massive line of devices. The future king of tiny mobile computers is going to need vision and focus. Go ahead and take Nokia off the list of contenders. -- Personally I think he's got it wrong. I've noticed with tech companies (including Microsoft) that third time's the charm. I think Nokia has touched into the power users with the open-sourciness (hehe) of Maemo and gotten enough good feedback that the next revision will be a big hit. Adding GPS would be awesome if still economical, and if you guys listened to everyone about sync capabilities for contacts and such, there's no product that could really compete in my opinion. Although I think multitouch solid screens similar to the iPhone might be nice ;-) At least the solid part. I'm always afraid I'm going to damage my LCD. I mean let's be honest - I'd give up my RAZR in a heartbeat for a good old solid indestructible Nokia phone that doesn't misdial every time I call someone. The brand still carries a lot of weight for me. And I love my n800. -- Tony Maro http://www.maro.net/ossramblings.php ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
