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Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, praises Nokia but Nokia still clueless in USA October 19, 2009 [General] | By Edward J. R. Steve Ballmer is busy these days because Windows 7 and several other products, like Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Exchange 2010, etc - are being launched this and next month. Steve Ballmer has just said something about Nokia's incredibly overpriced netbook powered by Windows 7: “Nokia’s mobile device leadership, together with AT&T’s mobile broadband network leadership, Best Buy’s retail reach and Windows 7, is a very strong lineup,” Furthermore Microsoft has promised to port Office Mobile software, including connection to SharePoint and Office Communicator, to Nokia's Symbian phones. After all selling servers is one of the core businesses of Microsoft and Micrsosoft will do everything to facilitate it. To learn more, please read related article about Nokia's struggle in USA. Commentary While in global market Nokia is a market leader in smartphone, mainly thanks to phones powered by clunky Symbian, in USA Nokia is a complete failure in all areas. While some people claim that the reason of this failure of Nokia in USA is the fact that Nokia was not offering phones compatible with CDMA or phones with more interesting form factors, we think that basic mistake of Nokia is decision to stick to their proprietary operating systems like Symbian and recently: Linux Maemo. It is that simple: Nokia should license both Windows Mobile and Google Android and Nokia should release phones powered by these operating systems to American market. Failure to do so will mean that any chances to crack American market will be gone. In Nokia, management is working still in outdated mode: recently Nokia had big losses both in their networks division (Nokia Siemens Networks) and in their handsets divisions, but Nokia's CEO was not fired, instead he just changed lower management and blamed lower handset sales on problems with component manufacturers. Right. As if! We repeat: the sooner Nokia will adapt standard operating systems (like Windows Mobile and Google Android) for their phones, the sooner Nokia will have any chances to break into American market. If Nokia is not willing to do it, then maybe board of directors of Nokia should change its CEO? Credit for the article: Harry (over Twitter).  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 2 Comments ]
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