Sunday, October 16, 2011

Nokia - Maemo, Meego, Meltemi, and What ....?

History has proven that division of labour is the path of the future and present. Nokia should have concentrated on Phone Hardware rather than trying to come up with a phone OS. Their efforts to come up with Maemo and Meego were proven failures. They shared the same fate as HP's WebOS. (Now that google has bought Motorolla, will the history repeat? The answer is yet to be seen)

In the meantime, other phone companies started making phones for Android. That worked well as the model goes along the well proven division of labour concept. They had out-beaten Nokia in the Smartphone Niche.

From the above perspective,  Nokia's decision to go with Windows-7 Mobile is a good choice. And Plasma Active is a recent choicewhich is now open . Even if they had decided to go with Android, that would also be fine, if they had the capability to compete purely based on the hardware.

Or has Nokia lost their faith in their hardware competency and trying to survive with the brandname and some software differentiation?

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