If only market shares were fixed numbers. Myspace was doing very well before facebook came along. How could a current (and falling, in nokia's case) market share garantee anything about the future?
There is absolutely no comparison between Nokia and Myspace. Nokia is coming out with new things like S^3 and running app contests to encourage development. Myspace failed because they did nothing when an unquestionably superior product came out.
Now, they've actually started to put up competitive phones in the mid-high-end of market, and top high-end coming in spring, so I'm not sure Nokia's going to fall that much.
Exactly. Also it seems that the UI is one reason symbian phones seemed to run so slowly - with any luck Qt based phones will run quicker.
Also, it shouldn't be too hard to target Symbian and Meego from the same codebase.
Coding for Symbian is not supposed to be too much fun, having good tools is half the battle and I expect the Qt tools to help, whether it'll be enough remains to be seen.
Depends on a lot of other factors. In 1989, Apple enjoyed huge profits from the Mac. The management at the time made the wrong decision to focus on profits at the expense of marketshare.
I don't think they could compete on the cheap with Chinese clones with razor margins then as they can't today. It is simply a different business.
They are the only company that survived,Amiga, Commodore, Atari, Spectrum,all perished, so not so wrong.
If you ask the cheap product manufactures in China, all want to be Apple, life is better selling a small number of units at a high price that selling millions by weight.
