Comment by bawolff
2 years ago
People pick on nokia for making the wrong choice, but i dont think they were wrong. Apps are important and they are a bit of a winner takes all market (or at least half). Nokia was screwed and i think the memo correctly identifies that.
Unfortunately identifying the problem is only half the battle. Figuring out what to do next is the other half, and that is where nokia failed.
As everybody at the time was pointing out. If you are unwilling to make your own platform (Maemo/MeGoo) work, then just make Andoird phones. It wasn't really tha difficult and many people had been screaming about this since 2009.
But instead they just continued with the Symbian feature phones that nobody wanted.