http://www.dw2-0.com/2008/08/market-share-is-no-comfort.html I got to the article via Bernardo’s share on google reader, and had this roller coaster of agreements levels with what was written.

It’s sure worth the reading, and I specially like some of the his points like”

Despite what some critics have said, these innovations aren’t (all) easy for other companies to copy. The “look” can be mimicked, but the “feel” is the result of countless small design and implementation details, that are anchored in a sophisticated underlying software system.

That is of course quite obvious once you use any samsung or lg touch phones. I also would love to not see this happening from Nokia (with the Tube) but it will, based on the already available youtube / photos out there.

And finally his comparison of Nokia to Microsoft when crushing the Netscape, which I totally agree that COULD happen, but the only thing I see is :

Netscape was much more present on the market (the shake!) and thus made MS move to win the battle. I think the market share problem is here. Within the iphone Era, Nokia has increased it’s marketing share, thus minimizing the impact that the iphone should have on it. Of course people inside Nokia must know the importance of the iPhone, but here comes my fully disagreement point with the article:

Symbian nor Symbian foundations are not even near to the solution to this scenario. I could go into details here, but to open source symbian does not fix it’s biggest problem: it’s 91 architecture and “bloatness” created over the years. To add a fancy transition engine also doesn’t solve the problem. The solution is inside the article itself. Can you figure that out?

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I already talked about the smartness of some US analysts, when looking at the market as US-like one, but this is a little too much. Come on, fan boy? I think we got some new breed of Apple lover here. Way beyond fan boy.

Read here the Forbes article and the article on dw20 commenting on it here

here’s the quote :

“I believe that Nokia and Symbian are irrelevant companies at this point.”

Can you truly believe that someone that has “voice” said that? yes. Oh my, oh my.

What I think: iphone is selling a lot now with cheaper prices, and a great user experience. But I can also tell you: a lot of early users are starting to fell really disappointed with the phone. The whole problem is that Browsing has become really important and no other phone has a nice experience like the iphone. But that is easier to change than believing that a manufacture can clone the WHOLE experience in 1 or 2 year. Doing that requires a company mindset change, from engineering to design oriented and this is not going to happen any time soon to any other manufacturer.