• Symbian-Guru Ditches Nokia

    Symbian-Guru Ditches Nokia

    Techtree News Staff, Jul 02, 2010 0853 hrs IST

    Says Nokia is "Losing it"

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If you have been a die hard Symbian fan over the past few years, the name Symbian-Guru would surely ring a bell. The popular Symbian oriented website has been in business since the past four years with the owners (hardcore Symbian fanboys) posting regular updates in order to make the lives of Symbian device users across the globe a little better.

However, thanks to Nokia's continued lack of innovation and the same old strategy of supplying customers the same old wine in a different bottle along with the lack of overall development of the once powerful Symbian platform, one of the most famous fanboys and advocates of the Symbian platform have now turned against it. 


In an epic blog post along with co-contributor Rita El Khouri, Symbian Guru Ricky Cadden has finally unleashed his frustration against a company and an Operating System they supported and evangelised over the course of the past few years. Ricky was particularly harsh on Nokia and his exasperation was clear when he bluntly told Nokia that the company was losing it .  


He goes on - You guys are losing. Hard. Wake the hell up. Doing the same thing repeatedly while expecting different results is the definition of insanity.  I ve been a huge Nokia fan since my 2nd cellphone, and I just can t do it any longer. You guys aren t competing like you once were, and everyone but you seems to see that. You used to build the world s best smartphones, the world s best cameras, the world s best GPS units you ve lost pretty much all of that."


Ricky doesn't seem to be very optimistic about the upcoming N8 too which, according to him, will have the same fate as the N97 which looks attractive at first and quickly loses sheen one you start using the product. 

As for the now open Symbian platform, Ricky had a piece of advice for them as well. The suggestion was to stop bragging about the now open status of the platform and actually start working on making the entire Symbian platform to be in sync with the hardware manufacturers. With all Symbian phone makers having app stores of their own, the platform remains an unattractive destination for developers who face the trouble of submitting a single application to multiple sources. 

Nokia might not be bothered if they lose just another blogger but the impact of this is already reverberating across the blogosphere with people actively replying to the blogpost with comments. Perhaps the biggest slap on the face of Nokia is Ricky's switch over to the Android platform once a rival platform for the Symbian fanboy.

Nokia might still be the market leader when it comes to sheer numbers but the fact that it is losing ground in many countries even traditional strongholds still doesn't seem to have sent alarm bells ringing at Helsinki. Nokia's future still looks hazy with Symbian^3 or even the upcoming MeeGo OS which is yet to prove its mettle. Anyway, to say that 2010 might turn out to be the toughest year Nokia's mobile phones division has faced since its existence, wouldn't be an overstatement.

 


 

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(4) Comments
Hector
,Los Angeles, on Jul 14, 2010 10:16 PM
Hehe. Who dropped who?
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Chetan
,Chennai, on Jul 02, 2010 03:05 PM
as they say History repeats itself. Xerox story, during early days of computers Xerox thought a "computer" as another electronic device... and rest is the history. Sure Xerox PARC innovates be it GUI interface with Motif's. Coming back to point. Nokia is new "Xerox". Nokia did not invent mobile Motorola did. But Nokia made mobile's "popular" so-to-say. But, Nokia made only handsets & not the software that runs on mobile phones. All these years Nokia dished "old wine in a new bottle" and people liked it! that suggest People are dumb "practically". Apple iPhone to woke up Telecom and Mobile industry not RIM (Research in Motion) or Nokia! For Nokia time is running out (almost) .
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Deepak
,Chennai, on Jul 02, 2010 10:38 AM
Absolutely agree with Symbian Guru and Techtree...Nokia WAS great...not anymore..."...supplying customers the same old wine in a different bottle.." aptly summarises Nokia's strategy... WAKE UP NOKIA...It's time or perish...
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sachin
,goa, on Jul 02, 2010 09:30 AM
Symbian is about to die... android has killed it
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