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Why Nokia Won't Beat Apple's iPhone (alleyinsider.com)
4 points by bootload on Oct 13, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


This does not make any mention of Nokia's mobile content push. Nokia is quickly becoming more than just a handset manufacturer. If you dont believe me just look at all of the startups they have acquired recently. If I were Apple I would be very concerned.


"... This does not make any mention of Nokia's mobile content push. ..."

Also the way Nokia is opening up their toolset by choosing open source tools. As new tools are developed, ported (cite Mozilla coming to the N800) users will be able to take full advantage of this.

The killer in my view is the restrictions on usage. Not everyone wants to use one service provider. While Nokia can still slip-up, using open tools and not tying users to one telco drives down cost and hurts Apple in the market.


I don't think it's a great argument. Perhaps Apple will beat Nokia in America, but since America is about 5 years behind Europe/Asia in mobile technology it's pretty irrelevant anyway.


Funny pictures (love the iSheep), but very week argumentation.




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