Death Knell for Nokia???

 

Not so soon!!! A lot of speculation about Nokia’s way of doing things these days. It all started with it’s smart phone OS strategy. According to me, the biggest failure with Nokia is it’s Symbian OS. I cannot understand how they failed to predict the effects of IOS and Android. They have been the biggest threat to Nokia.

It’s difficult to understand how an Operating System alone can bring an empire down on it’s knees. It doesn’t matter how big Nokia was, the two top OS’s are spelling doom for the mobile manufacturing giant.

The aftermath has been deterioration, at least till now. And now Nokia has got bigger problems. Since Symbian 3 isn’t cool (yeah cool!!!! OS es have to be cool these days), there aren’t too many apps in the market. Developers have started to move on to Android and IOS to make money. This means more and more followers for these two operating systems and more and more buyers of Apple and Android phones.

HTC after making the decision to manufacture Android phones has benefited largely. Even though it has it’s own line of Windows 7 phones, the popularity of HTC has largely increased after it adopted Android.

But, such competition is normal these days. Mobile manufacturers have been releasing new handsets every month. Upgrades to software, new apps, robust hardware etc., are helping the sales of smart phones like never before. This is exponential development. I wonder what will be the case when Singularity approaches.

Whatever the case is, I firmly believe that this is not the end for Nokia. She has been in the market for so long, no wonder she’ll bounce back. Though many critics have not backed her decision to adopt Windows OS, it might prove fruitful in the long run.

The worry is, the comeback has to happen soon. In fact very soon. And Nokia releasing N9 with MEEGO in it (Just hope it isn’t too late!!!) is heartwarming. Because Meego has got some future. The teasers so far have been cool. And with Nokia having choices now, which others do not, it can cater to different needs of consumers. Meego, Windows Mango and Symbian 3. That’s not a bad collection – but every OS is primitive, which is obviously a problem. But, Nokia can now concentrate on design, hardware and support. Because Meego’s for Intel and Windows has a bright future with Microsoft. Symbian 3 as we all know will be dead in a few years and hence not too much R&D is required in the near future.

All Nokia has to do now is to win back it’s loyal customers. There will hardly be a problem with Nokia’s hardware capabilities. All it has to do is concentrate on software which she is already doing. It might take sometime, but for good. Moreover, Nokia seem to be investing good on it’s OVI store. As a user, I feel there have been a lot of improvements of late.

The only concern for me is the firmware update for Symbian 3. It has been so long that people have started to move away from Nokia handsets. That’ s the most sensitive thing Nokia has to work on. Retain and win back consumers!!!!! It’s gonna be fine. Just fine.