Nokia's Collapse Costs It the Top Spot, Samsung Now No. 1

If there is one reason why Nokia is doing so poorly, its because of actions of one man -- Stephen Elop. An ex-Microsoft employee, he compromised Nokia's future by betting it all on windows mobile, a 5th place OS (at the time). Multi-billion dollar companies typically have no feelings, no loyalties per se, and basically just one simple strategy -- do what it takes to make money . If something doesn't work, they dump it. If they have a choice of 2 good products, and are unsure, they'll release both and see which sells. Samsung's mobile division is a great example of this. They understand that Android is popular, so they flood the market with different size/shape androids. Samsung also understands that a small share of the market prefer windo...
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I really, really loved Nokia. In my opinion, they always made the phones with the best signal strength (antennas) & battery life. Previous I had a Nuron with T-Mobile & a Nokia E5 with Straight Talk/ATT. Both were great, inexpensive smartphones. While I didn't like Symbian as much as I do Android I found I probably liked it as much or better than Windows Mobile. I could not believe when Nokia, the #1 maker of all phones & smartphones worldwide, announced they would just abandon Symbian. Even if it would have been to just go "all-Android", I would have thought that to be a dumb decision but when I heard it was to go "all-Windows", I thought "they MUST be on crystal meth". What an incredibly poor decision. In my opinion, they should ha...
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As the title says, no surprises, but Nokia must still be number one for battery life.