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Re:7 Ways Nokia Can Win Again by rbanffy on Friday June 18, 2010 @08:26AM (#1441963)
I suggest one way: get rid of Symbian and embrace Android, track it closely making the phones upgradable to the latest possible release they can run (reducing platform fragmentation) and keep launching excellent hardware like Nokia always did. Everybody changes phones every couple years - as long as there are nicer, more capable ones.

Symbian is a dead-end. It runs on smaller, simpler and cheaper phones, but those are not the future.

Obviously nobody in a position to make such decision reads HN, so, this is a pointless exercise. But someone had to say it.

Re:7 Ways Nokia Can Win Again by carmen on Friday June 18, 2010 @09:12AM (#1442069)
X is the great leveler of UI. any toolkit can be used. likewise, any app can control/talk-to any other app in any language with DBUS. this is the diversity that only Nokia and OpenMoko managed to ship.
Re:7 Ways Nokia Can Win Again by rbanffy on Friday June 18, 2010 @11:42AM (#1442525)
I am not sure diversity of tools is key to survival in this space. Android is proving very successful right now and does not even include X. http://soundcloud.com/unaudible Nokia will not be able to achieve critical developer mass faster than Android and will soon be unable to compete.