Nokia CES Predictions?

no I don't. Nokia is too quiet about it. Intel is too quiet about it. this thing is supposed to be out by mid year. well devices that were shown at CES are supposed to be out mid year. But they were shown. Something doesn't smell right to me. There is no reaching out to the media. no reaching out to the open source community. it's too quiet.
 
I agree. If it was coming out within months, we'd have seen *something* from either company. After all, they have to sell it to their channels and carriers, so device leaks would have been all over the place. Exhibit A: the S-E Playstation phone. That likely isn't shipping until later this year, the Summer or even the holiday season, but a single Google search will show you what it looks like, a hands on video and the real UI.

Nothing yet regarding an N9 or a Nokia tablet, apart from one single unofficial photo a few months back, with a device that looked like a mini Macbook Pro kirf.
 
The big shareholders are broadly supportive of Nokia's strategy (but not happy with its implementation - part of the reason top management was changed). If they weren't, the strategy would have been changed a long time ago. Meego will be launched, and relatively soon (relatively soon may not be the attention span of the average tech blogger of course :) ).
 
I think we will know a heck of a lot more about where NOK is headed in a few weeks once they lay out their new strategy. Meego will not get it done in the USA. So if Nok is content to never have a presence in the USA, then I guess that will be their new strategy.
 
Within weeks of being hired, current management has already changed the prior management's strategy. So it's hard to see how big shareholder could be supportive of "both" strategies. Implementation has already improved under Elop. Elop just arrived and could have more changes in store. Strategies change when new CEOs arrive on the scene.
 
How did they change the fundamental strategy of S40, Symbian and Meego, plus Qt bridging the platforms (at least the latter two)? I must have missed something. :)
 
the original plan was to have two tracks. S3 and S4. New Management changed that and put Symbian on a single track. they also put their chips down on QT as the app framework for both Sym and Meego. Sharing the same app framework. That was a fundamental shift. And yes it looks like you did miss something. I hope you're paying attention for the next fundamental shift. :)
 
Haha, well aware of all of that. I would call those more changes in tactics and actions when implementing the strategy. :) but defining what exactly is a "strategy" is not that straight forward sometimes.

Btw, some would argue that S^3 and S^4 were not really two tracks though but stops/stations/milestones on a single track.
 
Yeah, there's no fundamental shift in approach. Using Qt as a bridge between Symbian and MeeGo was the plan with Maemo so it's at least that old. Probably older and certainly nothing Elop has done. Nokia didn't buy Trolltech in 2008, even prior to buying out its Symbian partners, on a lark. Using Qt as a bridge between platforms was undoubtedly the idea back then.

Closing the Symbian Foundation is probably also not Elop's work, but something that was in progress when he was installed as CEO.

Switching from the major milestone delivery model, i.e. S^3 -> S^4 -> ??, to just "Symbian" with incremental feature updates might have been something that came from Elop, and it's a good idea, but not a huge shift. If you believe that S^3 and S^4 were two different products or something, you misunderstood. It was always one product, just with different feature milestones. S^3 would have evolved into S^4, not been replaced by it, and that's basically still true except that it will simply be called Symbian. I expect that it will ultimately also replace S40, and this too has probably been in the cards for quite some time.
 
the CEO has not even had his coming out party yet. that comes in a month or so. I expect him to put his stamp on the company. I don't expect him to rubber stamp the failed strategy of OPK.
 
the original plan called for a code "break" going from S3 to S4 that developers rebelled against. the Qt strategy came from Elop because of feedback from developers who didn't like the idea of having to develop one app for S3 and then make it work on S4 because of the code break. Elop has only started to change the strategy at Nokia.
 
Oh, I see what has you confused. What was actually going to happen with S^4 was a full transition to Qt to the exclusion of legacy Symbian code and that S^3 was supposed to be a sort of transition period. This will still mostly happen as the development focus for Nokia platforms will continue to be the Qt framework, but the platform will continue to support applications written for Symbian. In fact, Nokia still recommends that high-performance 3D games be written for Symbian as opposed to using Qt. You're absolutely right about that - this is one shift that's probably pretty recent. Maybe Elop believes it makes more sense for legacy code to die a natural death as it is superseded by new as opposed to facing a hard cut-off. Sounds very Microsoftian.

Nokia, for its part, is doing all internal work in Qt now. Even newer apps that have Qt UI layers are often written on top of old code. Ovi Store is a prime example. It's still WRT underneath. That's all being gutted and re-done properly.
 
you can couch it in any way you want. it's clear the previous strategy of OPK was flawed on a serious level and elop had to adjust it as the first thing he did when he arrived. well after laying off 6% of the workforce. OPK also was not honest in his communication to constituents or he was badly misguided about product release schedules. no matter. He is enjoying retirement. if you think that elop is going to stop here with his restructuring of nokia, which is a badly broken company, then you haven't been following corporate machinations for very long. He is an outsider and has no particular allegiance to past. But again we only have a month to see what the new CEO has on his mind.
 
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