American domestic mobile industry analysts are very much behind the times, when it comes to mobile telecoms. This is due to no fault of their own - they are very competent and hungry for information and are doing a professional job. But it is the US domestic market which has stagnated, fallen years behind the world leaders, driven now by true industry dinosaurs like the carriers Sprint, AT&T, Verizon. Note that almost all traditional major mobile tech vendors from North America have gone bust including Palm, Lucent, Nortel and now Motorola which was in the process of splitting into two. American mobile telecoms is so far behind, it took outsiders like Apple and Google to come and revitalize it. The US domestic mobile industry is a corpse, rotting.

Nokia started long before the iPhone. Nokia set up its app store with partners, and all along the way it is connecting people also for the very poor, and even manages to win consistently Greenpeace's award as the greenest phone maker. While Apple uses Foxconn as its supplier, a manufacturer some accuse of being a sweatshop, Nokia set up the world's largest handset factory into China so it can control the handset manufacturing process itself.

The lazy story is to take the superficial and just say, Symbian is dead but there is more.

Originally Posted by ysss

He's pretty heavily biased toward Nokia.

IE: Citing Google's pull back of Nexus One and MS Kin without explaining the actual cause. Implying the cause was tough market.

Originally Posted by mrojas

What other cause could be? The Nexus One didn't sell as well as Google expected, worst even with HTC getting similar handsets subsidized through carriers.

The Kin didn't sell well either (due to being handicapped by Microsoft own incompetence); a featurephone priced like a smartphone. Market again.

I actually liked the article. After so much Apple Kool-aid in the news, some Nokia Kool-aid doesn't hurt.

Originally Posted by ysss

The Kin was a clause completion for Danger purchase. I know I'll get some !@#! for citing engadget, but read it yourself:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/l...-inside-story/

Google is a global software & services company. They've consistently proven to prefer having local/regional partners to do unnecessary (& less profitable) legworks than to do it themselves, leaving them to focus on their core stuff (look up their bandwidth rentals). Sure there are exceptions; but this isn't it.

But yeah, the more perspectives thrown on an interesting issue the better.

Originally Posted by gerbick

So... is that the reason as to why Nokia doesn't really advertise in the US and Japan?