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Antennagate: The Finale?
Marketing can be a chess game. Steve’s made his move, now his competitors get to make theirs. “Them’s fighting words” for these guys, and they’ve already had some nasty things to say about Apple drawing them into its “self-made debacle.” Careful with this one, boys. You may protesteth too much. More and more stories are beginning to appear confirming that this really is an industry-wide problem, and other phones do suffer from a similar death grip.
Good article that sums it up well. I chose the above quote because the statements from RIM, Nokia, HTC, etc. have all been non-denial denials. Like the author, I agree this should backfire on them, but believe it won't because their phones just aren't that interesting.
Why would a tech site spend their time thoroughly testing other companies' "death grips" and then publish the results when no one will click the link anyway? Apple gets page-hits, others do not. This stopped being about "news," or "concern" for the consumer, and crossed over into the realm of SEO and page hits long ago.
Apple Crushes Everyone In Cell Phone Customer Satisfaction Ratings
Surveys of consumers' future buying habits mean very little. If consumers did what they said in surveys, products made via those surveys would be raging successes, but they're not. Apple, perhaps famously, eschews such surveys, contending a customer doesn't know what they want until they see it. So even though the future looks great for Apple in the article's surveys, it means little to me.
There is, however, one type of survey that's very important. Customer Satisfaction is not about the future, it's about real people who own the device now, and how happy they are with it. I would argue it's the only survey that really matters. Look at that chart. Apple crushes everyone by such a wide margin the other guys should be revamping their support policies, procedures and staff, not their product lines.
Nokia must be hoping there's a sap for that
Nokia's official blog has jumped on the iPhone 4 "death grip" bandwagon in a posting that suggests the company's mobiles don't share the same issues related to blocking a phone's antenna, despite having earlier published instructions that tell users to avoid holding its phones in a way that might block the antenna.
Nokia making fun of the iPhone is like the Hindenburg making fun of a 747.
Adobe Soon is Adobe's most popular mobile product
Adobe's newest Flash Player 10.1 will soon be available on Google's Android "Froyo" 2.2 operating system for smartphones and other devices, and Adobe's Murarka said other smartphones would soon support Flash.
"You're going to see Flash not only on Android. Consumers will see devices from Palm, Research in Motion Ltd's Blackberry, Nokia's Symbian and Microsoft Windows Phone 7 support the full Flash Player," Murarka said.
Emphasis mine. It's always "soon" with these guys.
Nokia: Connecting People, Disconnecting Brains
The unscrupulous quotation has been met with astonishment at Nokia.
The statement by Scott Forestall that has so enraged Nokia? "Because it is amazingly engaging, personal, it's all about connecting people". Hmm, yes, unscrupulous.
Nokia is nuts.
Anyone who doesn't think is a perfect example of Apple so much as budging a toenail and then having it examined six different ways by companies or pundits who can't be bothered to write about their products or tech is living in total denial.
When in doubt, reorganize. That always works.
The new Mobile Solutions unit will concentrate on the company's high-end mobile computer and smartphone portfolio. Based on both the MeeGo and Symbian software platforms respectively, these devices will be tightly integrated with Nokia's Internet services to increase the combined value for consumers.
Um, ok.
Required Reading RE: Apple vs Nokia
So this is not a case of tit-for-tat as virtually every report so far has suggested. It’s a case of Nokia, finding itself well behind the curve in mobile phones, attempting to extort unfair, unreasonable, and discriminatory licensing terms against Apple for patents which Nokia has already committed to license under fair reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms.
The above article is required reading for anyone truly interested in what's going on with Nokia and Apple. However, if all you're interested in is juicy gossip about a cat-fight between the two companies, don't bother.
