Nokia - the evil bully of cell phone industry - sinks like titanic
July 15, 2004;
Die Nokia, die!
Nokia is an evil corporation that for several years has been hindering free development of cell phone industry, so it is very good that now Nokia's sales drop, it loses market share in cell phone market and its margins are decreasing to zero (it is about to start losing money soon!). Some latest facts about Nokia:
- Nokia just said: third-quarter earnings per share may fall by as much as half and sales will decline
- Nokia tries to recover from falling market share by decreasing prices of handsets - but it leads to situation where profit margins are falling and it may soon lead to situation when Nokia will start losing money. Instead of adding features and being more open to needs of customers (producing Microsoft powered cell phones like Samsung and Motorola are - multi-platform ability!) Nokia simply cuts prices!
- Nokia boycotts needs of operators (carriers): until now (as of July 2004) Nokia still hasn't released a 3G cell phone with real videotelephony - their 3G phone have camer on its back !!! This is totally destructive for cell phone industry and having in mind that Nokia exploited many operators by selling to them overpriced 3G cellular network infrastructure - one can clearly see how evil and operator-hurting Nokia is.
- Nokia has 49% of stake in Symbian what means practically (!) that it controls Symbian. Nokia is also destroying their partners from Symbian by offering their own Symbian platforms (like Symbian Series 60, etc) instead of using common Symbian platforms like UIQ !
Just for recollection: some older facts about Nokia:
- Nokia decided to kill Opera Software company by releasing its own mobile Internet browser
- Nokia with dirty tricks was leading to Sendo stopping production of Microsoft Smartphone and later it also indirectly financed and supported Sendo's efforts to sue Microsoft. Nokia is nowadays supporting Sendo in many ways by providing to it for free cell phone software and technical support.
- Nokia, contrary to Microsoft that makes only software, is making both hardware and software (Symbian platforms + software components for regular phones) - but what a scam it is! Hardware vendors which chose to use Nokia produced software in cell phones are at the same time destroyed by Nokia, that releases products directly competing to these software license takers. It makes no business sense at all.
- Nokia is bullying cellular network operators (carriers) by threatening them not to deliver certain new and upcoming handsets if they will not purchase some cellular network infrastructure elements.
- Nokia Ventures - a full subsidiary of Nokia is pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into companies that support Nokia technologies (like Symbian, Nokia's Java extensions, etc) and companies that deny using Microsoft technologies. Example: Russell Beattie - a mediocre Java programmer more well known as anti-Bush blogger and owner of Mobitopia (pro-Symbian pro-Nokia anti-Microsoft tabloid) - is working in his main job in a company "WaveMarket" that would not exist without fat financing (venture capital) from Nokia!
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Big thanks to Erkki Koivusalo from Nokia Matka Puhelin, who revealed to us some secrets regarding dirty machinations of this Eastern European corporation.
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