I phone or Samsung.
Lack of innovation.
iPhone… Because it was iPhone 1 in 2007 that created the form factor of smartphones that is still used today. All phone manufacturers, including the ones that were existing then like Nokia and Samsung, were forced to adapt to this.
Nokia initially resisted this and it was the beginning of the downfall, as majority of their market share shifted to this form factor pioneered by the iPhone.
On point…We can include blackberry pia hapa
Blackberry was only popular in the west…
nokia decided remain on sybion system while everyone was shifting to ios and android
The guy is right. BlackBerry was a wealthy man’s phone marketed as a ‘business’ phone.
They stuck to their keyboards when everyone was going full touch and that killed them just as it did Nokia
There is a nice recent YT documentary showcasing the initial struggles at Apple when designing iPhone 1.
Some of the features we take for granted today, like the capacitive touchscreen on a phone, were pure rocket science back in 05/06.
Apple actually bought off one of the most innovative start-ups specializing in touchscreens then, just to give the iPhone project impetus.
One of the prototypes initially proposed was a design similar to the iPod, but that was shot down, lol.
The prototype design that prevailed and that all smartphones use to date had so many challenges and critics wihin the project team, it almost never saw the light of day. A project team member happened to solve of its major challenges when he had a “eureka moment” in an airplane washroom and saw a toilet feature. LOL!
The ruthless Steve Jobs set the launch date for the then top secret project as Q1 2007. Despite the challenges and seemingly impossible ideas being pushed, they had to do their best. Steve could smell it. The visionary he was. Long hours were worked. Some marriages even broke.
We owe the current smartphone form factor directly to these guys. We also owe it big time to Steve Jobs for believing in the project and giving the team all the resources they needed. If it wasn’t for him, it would have been another 7-10 years before another team would’ve conjured up such a smartphone and had the means to take it to the masses.
Microsoft killed Nokia.
Nokia killed itself. They refused ti change when android and ios entered the scene. I remember i had a Nokia 5800, a flagship then with a resistive touchscreen when android and iPhone were using the more responsive capacitive touch screens
Their heads got to big assumed smart phones were a fart in wind , there was alot of infighting each dept trying to out do the other, decision making was at the pace of molasses ! simple decision took months had to be signed off by big bosses eg you had to wait form some fat cat to finish his leave to make simple decisions .
What if they got stuck to Symbian OS and improved it like I OS, could we be having a 3rd competitive OS?
Yes, that was foreseeable. The problem was its ecosystem. Symbian was running on Nokia hardware that nobody wanted.
The Symbian guys were also notorious for being bureaucratic and close minded. App approvals and additions into the Symbian store could sometimes take years, if not months. Meanwhile, the Google store was growing by leaps and bounds and was actively supporting app developers in so many ways.
Nokia was Killed by Microsoft.
Nokia killed itself by refusing to adopt to Android OS or improving Symbian OS to be a proper competition. They recently joined Android though.
Consider this
10 years ago there were hardly any Chinese OEMs on the mobile phone scene.
Haungefikiria that unaweza nunua a Chinese phone 10 years ago.
Today Chinese OEMs control 50 % of the global mobile phone market and were it not for American kiwaru, Huawei was well on its way to overtake Samsung as the largest phone company in the world.
Chinku hachezi.
Why are Japanese not interested in the phones market.
change is unstoppable. ata iPhone watalilia chooni wasipoadjust prices. Huawei are offering powerful gadgets at a pocket friendly price. predicament ya blackberry inaeza waangukia ata kama they are the most valuable company
The Japanese lost their competitive economic edge to the Koreans and Chinese in the 2000s and haven’t recovered. Virtually every field that Japan had total domination in back in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s has been ceded to the Koreans and Chinese and they’re struggling to keep up in a world that is moving faster than they are. They missed the digital age (smartphones, computers, 5G, tech revolution etc.) and only continue to excel in legacy fields like entertainment and automobiles. Fields that they were good at in the past century. Japan doesn’t make the most advanced high speed trains and best consumer electronics anymore. They’ve all moved to Korea and China. Japan may soon lose the edge that they have in entertainment and automobiles with Kpop and Chinese electric vehicles taking hold in the rest of the region.
My guess as to why this has happened is simply that the Japanese became complacent. This development is ironic considering how tough and hard-driving their working culture is. Anecdotally, I think that Tokyo looks like it is stuck in the 1990s while Shanghai and Seoul are the symbols of modernity in Asia and this is symbolic of the legacy of the lost decade that they have never been able to recover from. Their population isn’t “hungry” enough for success unlike their neighbors who were living in crushing poverty until fairly recently and this has an effect on their innovation.
Nokia was at an age where phones where hardware driven. Android changed that. They Brought a software driven phone. They had the software which needed hardware. To make it palatable, they opened it up for developers to do whatever they needed.
Nokia tried to tweak up symbian but failed, they moved to Maemo & meego and panicked. Microsoft saw that they are missing out (I give it up to them. Survivors of the century). They came with a deal which was the last nail in Nokias coffin.
Lastly, their structure, marketing model, decision flow was flawed as many multi nationals are. They couldn’t respond fast enough to emerging technology. They got comfortable as the market leader and their development/dream team slept.
They never saw it coming.
Waiting for the first Modular phone. If well placed. It will be a game changer. Death to.mant phone companies.