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Unhappy users of Nokia OVI store

Monday, June 29th, 2009

My last post on Nokia Ovi application store seems to proove the points. One month after its launch the online store provokes negative impressions and comments on the Internet. I’ll cite one of them related to poor customer support posted by Matthew Miller on Nokia Experts blog.  I totally agree with arguments in that article and comments from Nokia users. In this time of economic slow down when users are desperately trying to get more for less, Nokia allows such an arogance to strip down the customer support to lower levels yet rise high revenue margins for their application distribution services. That obviously does not make them competitive to other mobile phone and application developpers and they continue to loose the market.

Last weekend I’ve met friends, a small mobile application development team, and discussed their view on the future of Nokia. They’ve totally agree that Nokia’s attitude does not favour small developers with restricted budget and they are turning to Apple. I bet there are many others in the mobile development industry that will follow the same trend with catastrophic results of Nokia Ovi store. That explains why there is such a poor offer of new contents for Nokia phones. Nokia continues its old strategy to release plenty of new phone models but they don’t realize that it is not what customers want.

Now I’ve regret even less that I’ve switched from N95 to iPhone…

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From N95 to iPhone

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Three years ago I’ve migrated from Windows to Mac OS. I wrote already about all the advantages and I’m pretty sure you all know about them already, so I won’t repeat them.
This time I’d like to share some toughts on migration to iPhone. Two years ago I’ve got Nokia N95. That amazing small marvel packed with hardware features and connectivity. I tought, that was the ultimate mobility gadget. What else might one want. When Apple released IPhone I was so dissapointed it was not 3G. A year later, as I wrote last July, I was watching very few fans waiting in front of Softbank store in Tokyo to get the latest 3G iPhone. Still remember Japan Times article highlighting all that was still missing on the latest IPhone. I tought that Apple still has to go a long way to reach Nokia’s success with their handsets.
Than came the iTunes store. Quickly filling with tens of thousands applications. In all categories, if not free than very reasonably priced. Almost free compared to prices of equivalent Nokia applications.
At the end of my two years contract with my phone operator I’ve decided that the choice of applications outweighs all dissadvantages. Here I am blogging from my new iPhone while old N95 is off- line waiting to transfer remaining photos and videos to my Mac. The “fruit vendor” from Infinity loop won!

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Apple is not a one man show, it’s a lifestyle and it will go on…

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Journalists (both on-line and off-line or paper based) are trying to make headlines with news that Apple is going to face difficulties while Steve Jobs is on a medical leave. What should make a headline is that Steve is a remarkable person with some great achievments. But Apple, there is no doubt, was here, is here and will stay around!

As I wrote before in last 20 years I’ve started personal computing with ZX Spectrum, switched to Apple II, moved to Windows, to Linux and finally, back to Apple again 2 years ago. Apple did have difficulties throughout its history but it reinvented itself and created a wide portfolio of great products that have a solid foundation and critical user mass. More importantly, I base my statement that Apple (with Mac OS X) will be an important player in personal computing during the years to come on the fact that kids these days prefer Mac OS X over Vista. This was not the case only few years back.

Some might argue that home users are not the majority of personal compter users, the most of the market is still in corporate world. This is statistically true, but more I see people bringing their personall Macs to their offices and using them along the corporate PC… Isn’t it quite the same with iPhones? Just look around. ;-)

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Nokia 5800 at 50% of iPhone’s price

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Nokia 5800 estimated cost will be around 280 euros before taxes and operators subsidies. That is almost at a half price of Apple’s iPhone! The list of countries where the phone will be launched before the end of the year is not published yet.

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Before Santa brings you a Nokia Tube…

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Nokia released two new NSeries phones, N85 and N79. N85 looks like a younger sibling of N95 although equipped with an excellent organic LED (OLED) display. It is also rich with features like navigation and 5Mpixel camera (N79 as well). Both phones are powered with Symbian S60 3rd edition with feature pack 2 (Symbian OS 9.3).

Nokia’s investment in Symbian establishes a solid foundation in development community for all their new phone models. It is expected that once released Nokia “Tube” (Nokia’s first touchscreen phone) will have much more solid application portfolio, platform robustness and stability than the rival iPhone from Apple.

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