Nokia’s strategic reaction to the iPhone

Extract:

“The key to how the iPhone would fundamentally affect the mobile industry was always going to be how it forced innovation at the incumbent players. The latest example is Nokia’s bold step to buy its partners out of their shares of Symbian, make it free for developers to develop on, and free to handset makers to put on their devices (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/06/25/ccnokia125.xml).

It seems Nokia has recognised just how it is that Apple managed to do so much better a job at building a mobile phone than businesses who’d been in the game for decades.”

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4 Responses

  1. I’m really excited to see what will be done with Symbian in the next few years.

  2. Absolutely. You have to think that Nokia will really commit to some great things from it now.

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