But, what I really came by here tonight to chat about was more the nature of the issues in the device linkages to service providers in the current market...
Ran across this tonight : help.ting.com
I found it pretty interesting... read the whole thing, particularly including all the comments. I found it to provide about as telling a picture of the state of affairs in the telecom services market as you could hope for... with that also revealing the nature of the problems that the device makers face, when the market for services (and, operating systems, also) isn't really a free market... with a lot of that anti-competitive behavior dominating those markets infiltrating the device makers markets, too...
The picture that's emerging of the Nokia leadership isn't flattering...
Not looking like a crew who are going to read a link like that above, and come away from it recognizing all sorts of new opportunities based on the problems others see being imposed on the ones who do make the decisions that really matter the most...
Randomly select a dozen "old guy" SI posters who know telecom, instead... and you might do better ?
That they're apparently baffled by the pace of evolution in the business, and were and still are caught flatfooted by it, rather than being surprised, instead, to find that others have matched their own drive to pick it up and leapfrog others... probably telling you enough...
That they couldn't figure out what to do with what they had... so they just threw it away... appears it may well apply to more than their handling of Symbian.
I see "hints" they've got "bits" in process that could "help"...
But, what I'm not seeing most... is the sort of coordination coming out of the executive offices that one might be able to recognize as constituting a strategy... or at least hint that there might be one, somewhere ? |
