**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Wed Jul 15 02:59:58 2015 Jul 15 17:09:11 wut http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2015/07/14/nokia-android-smartphone-plans/ Jul 15 20:16:00 *cough* Jul 15 20:16:03 thanks! Jul 16 00:43:05 pabs3: not really surprising, is it? Jul 16 00:44:11 of course, considering that they got rid of pretty much their entire product design teams, there is nothing innovative to be expected of these devices, nor are they likely to make a dent in the market Jul 16 00:44:43 still, selling overpriced medicore devices to the remaining Nokia fanboys is certainly a lucrative venture... Jul 16 01:26:59 well, they _have_ some concept / product line they could revive, if they'd be willing to go for niche market (however big for 'niche', however small for what Nokia considers real business) Jul 16 01:30:25 I bet they could sell more N950 now than they sold N810 back when, if only they wouldn't try to comply with mainstream capacitive-touchscreen,no-kbd,appstore-tivoized android-me-too paradigm and rather cling to *true* linux Jul 16 01:33:40 jolla built a rather android-alike boring phone and yet they succeeded with it, just because it's _not_ that android shit Jul 16 01:34:16 people are terribly fed up with android Jul 16 01:35:08 actually I don't know a single android user who likes android Jul 16 01:35:59 it's always a "ohmy what else? APPLE? WINDOWS?" Jul 16 01:38:23 one guy had a brilliant concept for future Nokia strategy, suggesting they would run linux with arbitrary VMs to get linux, android, windoze, whatever. However user has control over the host linux OS Jul 16 01:38:54 alas it was way too late when he suggested that, Nokia was already sold to M$ Jul 16 01:55:31 there is nothing of that remaining at Nokia. if they actually wished to go down this road again, they'd have to rebuild it from scratch -- just like any other company... Jul 16 01:56:53 or maybe buy out Jolla, which again any other company could do just as well... **** ENDING LOGGING AT Thu Jul 16 02:59:59 2015