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that's the reason i do not like Nokia.
exclusivity my foot. do not try to be like Apple.
I don't understand this mentality. They purchased navigation assets from Navteq back in 2007 at whooping USD 8.1 bn, just to stand out from crowd and to offer their users some really unique capability. They had put another billions in Nokia Maps (Ovi Maps of that time) project by now and today, it is a only single navigation software on earth offering: online, offline maps (now in 3D as well), offline turn by turn navigation with voice guidance in many supported languages (allows in own voice as well), location based services like Check in, burp, weather, lonely planet, trip adviser and many more integrated in maps. Many services are unique to Nokia's navigation system.
They were all exclusive to Nokia till the introduction of Nokia drive (turn by turn voice assistance and related services) as a separate application from Nokia maps.
They announced back in July that they want to make Nokia maps available for not just other WP OEM's but to all OSs. Since then, maps.nokia.com is offering as many mapping features possible (based on HTML5 web platform) to other OSs including iOS. Nokia Maps as a application (same as on Nokia devices itself) is now available in WP marketplace, but they want to keep Nokia Drive exclusive to themselves. I don't think its wrong. Every company want to differentiate itself and UIs, custom skins may not always be only differentiating factors.
BTW, just go to Nokia Maps 3D from your PC to see what Nokia is upto in mapping at this moment. They are miles away than competition when they are offering these 3D maps along with turn by turn voice guided navigation without requiring an internet connection, at completely free of cost and they want to keep it EXCLUSIVE to Nokia for a time being, nothing wrong here.
exclusivity my foot. do not try to be like Apple.
I don't understand this mentality. They purchased navigation assets from Navteq back in 2007 at whooping USD 8.1 bn, just to stand out from crowd and to offer their users some really unique capability. They had put another billions in Nokia Maps (Ovi Maps of that time) project by now and today, it is a only single navigation software on earth offering: online, offline maps (now in 3D as well), offline turn by turn navigation with voice guidance in many supported languages (allows in own voice as well), location based services like Check in, burp, weather, lonely planet, trip adviser and many more integrated in maps. Many services are unique to Nokia's navigation system.
They were all exclusive to Nokia till the introduction of Nokia drive (turn by turn voice assistance and related services) as a separate application from Nokia maps.
They announced back in July that they want to make Nokia maps available for not just other WP OEM's but to all OSs. Since then, maps.nokia.com is offering as many mapping features possible (based on HTML5 web platform) to other OSs including iOS. Nokia Maps as a application (same as on Nokia devices itself) is now available in WP marketplace, but they want to keep Nokia Drive exclusive to themselves. I don't think its wrong. Every company want to differentiate itself and UIs, custom skins may not always be only differentiating factors.
BTW, just go to Nokia Maps 3D from your PC to see what Nokia is upto in mapping at this moment. They are miles away than competition when they are offering these 3D maps along with turn by turn voice guided navigation without requiring an internet connection, at completely free of cost and they want to keep it EXCLUSIVE to Nokia for a time being, nothing wrong here.
if i were an investor in the company i had like them to offer this service as a paid offering on multiple platforms. to help recover the costs of the acquisition and the continues development.
Nokia drive is not a feature good enough to sell nokia devices on its own. and it is pretty apparent that they are going to find it impossible to stop developers to extract the app and port it to third party devices.
why not make it easy for the end user?
this exclusivity is only going to hurt them.
if they launch this service/app for multiple platforms and charge a monthly/yearly fee, i bet they are going to get more customers leading to more revenues. they want to continue operating as a hardware company? they are going to struggle even more in the coming years. times have changed. it is a good policy to diversify into software services as well.
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in any case, rumors are still pretty strong that they would eventually sell themselves to microsoft and microsoft would make nokia drive an integrated feature of windows phone platform.
nokia's market cap is so low right (USD 19.81 Billion) now that their acquisition of navteq looks horrible today.
Nokia drive is not a feature good enough to sell nokia devices on its own. and it is pretty apparent that they are going to find it impossible to stop developers to extract the app and port it to third party devices.
why not make it easy for the end user?
this exclusivity is only going to hurt them.
if they launch this service/app for multiple platforms and charge a monthly/yearly fee, i bet they are going to get more customers leading to more revenues. they want to continue operating as a hardware company? they are going to struggle even more in the coming years. times have changed. it is a good policy to diversify into software services as well.
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in any case, rumors are still pretty strong that they would eventually sell themselves to microsoft and microsoft would make nokia drive an integrated feature of windows phone platform.
nokia's market cap is so low right (USD 19.81 Billion) now that their acquisition of navteq looks horrible today.
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I agree with some of your points here. But after some time, they may offer Nokia drive as well to other OS's as Nokia maps now. Its just exclusive at this moment. And they will soon realize that its not easy to keep applications exclusive when you are entering in platform used by many other manufacturers.
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in any case, rumors are still pretty strong that they would eventually sell themselves to microsoft and microsoft would make nokia drive an integrated feature of windows phone platform.
nokia's market cap is so low right (USD 19.81 Billion) now that their acquisition of navteq looks horrible today.
It is very unlikely to happen in near future. Last quarter results were promising and they are recovering in developing countries like ours with low end handsets. Nokia is still very huge as a company at least by volumes. I will keep the word on it until next 1-2 quarters atlest.
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in any case, rumors are still pretty strong that they would eventually sell themselves to microsoft and microsoft would make nokia drive an integrated feature of windows phone platform.
nokia's market cap is so low right (USD 19.81 Billion) now that their acquisition of navteq looks horrible today.
It is very unlikely to happen in near future. Last quarter results were promising and they are recovering in developing countries like ours with low end handsets. Nokia is still very huge as a company at least by volumes. I will keep the word on it until next 1-2 quarters atlest.
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in any case, rumors are still pretty strong that they would eventually sell themselves to microsoft and microsoft would make Nokia drive an integrated feature of windows phone platform.
This will happen for sure. I wonder how Microsoft planned this conspiracy. How did they managed to send ELOP there and how he influenced everybody to kill symbian and meego. Meego was so awesome. The N9 looked so futuristic.
This will happen for sure. I wonder how Microsoft planned this conspiracy. How did they managed to send ELOP there and how he influenced everybody to kill symbian and meego. Meego was so awesome. The N9 looked so futuristic.
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Nokia is gone mad if this is true. They have priced Lumia 800 at 29999 Rs (best buy) according to some sources. Sometime during the last month, they told the press that price will be decided later for India as rupee is unstable against dollar and now they have come up with this tag and its ridiculous to pay 30K for this phone. No confirmation from Nokia though. Launch is scheduled on 16th Dec so expect price announcement very soon.
P.S. Letsbuy seems to have better deal.
Buy Nokia Lumia 800 (Black) at Best Price in India - Also find Specifications, Photos, Features & Reviews
P.S. Letsbuy seems to have better deal.
Buy Nokia Lumia 800 (Black) at Best Price in India - Also find Specifications, Photos, Features & Reviews
