5 Ways Nokia cocked up in the smartphone market
Shortened link to this page if you need it - http://goo.gl/D1Ijz [ EDIT 9 Feb 2011: A leaked memo from Nokia's CEO admits problems, and confirms several of the points I made in this article. They're making a significant announcement this Friday] [ EDIT: 11 Feb 2011: Nokia have offically announced a tie up with Microsoft to use Windows Phone] Nokia has had a lead in the worldwide smartphone market for some time. With a range of Symbian devices they had an exceptional amount of market share and held a dominant position. But then it all went wrong, and fundamentally it was because they didn't push the product in the correct directions. I wish it wasn't the case. Here are my top reasons why the Nokia/Symbian combination is declining: Binary incompatibility - The change from S60v2 to S60v3 meant that all applications had to be recompiled for the new devices, and that meant that developers had to ship and support two versions of their software to cover all devices. And a...