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<< Simon Buckingham-- "Nokia, currently the leading handset vendor, has refused point blank to back open standards and continues to support and push its proprietary Smart Messaging alternative." Does Buckingham have an ax to grind? >>
Former Vodafoner "Buck" most certainly has an ax to grind. I have not totally figured out why, but Nokia is his favorite target.
Part of this centers around EMS. Buck's forte is SMS and its derivatives, and that is what his consultancy specializes in. He consulted to AWS, Verizon, and Telstra (Australia) to implement 2-way SMS in a TDMA and CDMA environments. He is a proponent of EMS as well as MMS.
Nokia, did something way back, similar to what DoCoMo did with 'i-mode'. For lack of a standard they developed 'Smart-Messaging ' which has much of the functionality of EMS which Ericsson (with Buck's backing) proposed as a 3GPP standard.
Nokia has a large installed base of EMS handsets, and sees EMS as having a very short window, with the world moving
'Smart-Messaging' is proprietary, but more "open" than closed, since Nokia will license to others, and I believe at no charge.
It is, none the less proprietary, and I've commented on that on this thread many times over the last 6 months, picking up on comments from "Buck". It appears that Nokia wanted to make 'Smart-Messaging' a de facto standard, and have ignored committee standardization efforts on EMS. It now is ignoring it since it is preparing for MMS, and of course the majors have all coalesced in an initiative around MMS (Mobile Messaging Initiative - MMI)
Certainly Nokia's stance in re EMS is a departure from their "dedicated to open standards", hymn.
Tero gave his opinion on this here, sometime back.
There is more evidently to Buck's negative perspective on Nokia, but I haven't figured out what it is.
Perhaps Nokia forgot to take him to lunch, back in his Vodafone days?
- Eric - |
