Why is Nokia not selling Android phones?

[Sushubh]

Would like to point out here that Nokia stopped selling CDMA feature phones because they did not like paying royalties to Qualcomm. But they are now more than happy to pay royalties to Microsoft for Windows Phone devices. They would have sold millions of phones in markets like India if they had continued selling high quality low price CDMA feature phones.

 

[moindear]

They should have continued Meego!

 

[Sushubh]

Hopefully Jolla would get the backing it deserves. Sadly, all the big players have committed to one or the other mobile platform and are unlikely to adopt their platform in the near future.

 

[Technoholic]

Yeah. Corporate culture totally explains why Nokia dumped a fully functional OS when it was all set to launch and even got rave reviews from almost all outlets.

MeeGo was an OS. Who will emerge ecosystem out of it? Google had Android, MS had windows phone, Apple had iOS which despite having backed by non service company, had support of Google and third party community due to huge market share.

You need to have money plus either market share or already evolved ecosystem on other form factors in order to deploy it on mobiles. Nokia had nothing with MeeGo.

 

[SVK]

Jolla should pick up Yahoo, or Yahoo should pickup Jolla, so they would have what Google, Apple, MS has- online platform
Then they can reach few OEM vendors to put OS on some handsets.

 

[Technoholic]

Hopefully Jolla would get the backing it deserves. Sadly, all the big players have committed to one or the other mobile platform and are unlikely to adopt their platform in the near future.

That is what I am saying. MeeGo was no different. Nokia would have had hard time with MeeGo on software front, forget competing with Google, Apple, MS.

 

[Sushubh]

So basically you are saying that Nokia did not have the guts to make a comeback on their own?
Nokia ditching Symbian and adopting Windows Phone was pretty much like Apple dumping OS 9 and adopted Windows OS as the software for their computers.
I guess Nokia does not deserve the credit we give it after all.
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Personally, I think that they could have done a much better job by offering MeeGo as an alternative to Android. They tried doing it with Symbian but it was too little late. MeeGo on the other hand could have attracted attention from Samsung and the likes.

 

[Technoholic]

So basically you are saying that Nokia did not have the guts to make a comeback on their own?
Nokia ditching Symbian and adopting Windows Phone was pretty much like Apple dumping OS 9 and adopted Windows OS as the software for their computers.
I guess Nokia does not deserve the credit we give it after all.
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Personally, I think that they could have done a much better job by offering MeeGo as an alternative to Android. They tried doing it with Symbian but it was too little late. MeeGo on the other hand could have attracted attention from Samsung and the likes.

You probably do not know the problem with Symbian. I won't go technical but it had serious architecture limitations to be a modern smart platform.
MeeGo was fundamentally excellent. Technically, far superior than Android but it's not about guts. You probably didn't get what I tried to say in previous post about what Nokia lacked. You can not just go and invite developers and create community by saying, look we have some people willing to buy our OS despite having Google, Apple, MS in market. So would you like to develop for our platform as well? It's a pain in the a** for developers to support 3rd onward ecosystem. Marketshare-developers-marketshare is a bad circle and in a meantime, you require serious amount of financial support, backing and time which Nokia did not have/couldn't afford. MS was already all set on WP and eager to get hardware partner like Nokia on board and accommodate e whatever services they had.
For me, Nokia deserves credit for hardware innovation, navigation etc. I agree though that they have lost on so many things in recent years but its a compromise they have made to be competitive in ever intense competition. For me, mobile divisions of Samsung, Sony, LG etc, HTC as a whole deserve much less credit than today's Nokia. You have to look at what Nokia is doing with windows phone for that.

 

[Sushubh]

Based on your theory, I guess Blackberry deserves a lot of respect for what they are trying to do. Kudos to them.
I never used Symbian first hand. But from what I have heard, loads of Symbian developers were very eager to switch to development for MeeGo. Nokia did not just ditch MeeGo, they also ditched thousands of developers out there who coded for Symbian. From what I understand, they had a very solid chance at taking on Android when Nokia N9 was launched. Things are very different today of course. Samsung has practically beaten the crap out of everyone else. Things were still quite competitive 2-3 years ago.

 

[Technoholic]

And you know where the Blackberry is heading now.