Sony’s Bread and Butter? It’s Not Electronics

Re:Sony’s Bread and Butter? It’s Not Electronics by nivla on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @07:43AM (#5779357)

>By the way, Nokia is going down for the same reason.

Given that Nokia was able to adapt enough to come up with Nokia Maps [1] (Decent mapping app with free offline maps), Nokia Music, Intuitive camera apps; I must disagree with that statement.

[1] http://here.com/

[2] http://www.nokia.com/us-en/support/product/nokia-music/

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Re:Sony’s Bread and Butter? It’s Not Electronics by kalleboo on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @09:23AM (#5779813)

Exactly. Nokia have been innovating, they adopted Windows Phone which is great. But they've still flopped in the marketplace. It's far more complex than "their software isn't good".

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Re:Sony’s Bread and Butter? It’s Not Electronics by joezydeco on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @08:32AM (#5779541)

Nokia bought NAVTEQ. Is Maps because of adapt Nokia engineering or because of this acquisition?

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Re:Sony’s Bread and Butter? It’s Not Electronics by nivla on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @09:21AM (#5779800)

Both. They did get a foothold from the acquisition of NAVTEQ but a lot of missing features such as real-time traffic, street view and satellite imagery needed to be integrated. This was completed with the help from Bing.

The offline maps is truly a blessing. Running low on battery but still en route? Switch off 4G and Wifi, the biggest battery suckers, and the navigation still works without any hiccup. The last time I was visiting a foreign country and had no data service, it came in handy too.

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