Comments on: Your view on Symbian ‘and the PR War’ http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/10/your_view_on_symbian_and_the_pr_war.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:16:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike C http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/10/your_view_on_symbian_and_the_pr_war.html/comment-page-1#comment-246149 Mike C Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:34:32 +0000 http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/?p=17155#comment-246149 Here's the scenario. You are running Nokia, you currently sell more symbian devices on an annual basis than just about every type of handset that is made. You have to make a decision to change the platform and risk loosing all of your sells, or take a conservative route and keep doing the same, making small incremental improvements knowing that 90% of your user base will come back for more of the same. What would you do?<br><br>Now think of the VW golf, or the Toyota Corolla. Easy to make the exciting decision from the outside, bit more difficult inside the boardroom. Here's the scenario. You are running Nokia, you currently sell more symbian devices on an annual basis than just about every type of handset that is made. You have to make a decision to change the platform and risk loosing all of your sells, or take a conservative route and keep doing the same, making small incremental improvements knowing that 90% of your user base will come back for more of the same. What would you do?

Now think of the VW golf, or the Toyota Corolla. Easy to make the exciting decision from the outside, bit more difficult inside the boardroom.

]]> By: stevelitchfield http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/10/your_view_on_symbian_and_the_pr_war.html/comment-page-1#comment-246109 stevelitchfield Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:44:41 +0000 http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/?p=17155#comment-246109 She was in the wrong place. She should have stepped outside the speaker hall (empty and rather pointless, yes) and got chatting to the thousands of developers in the main stand area - there was more buzz there this year than any other Symbian show I can remember. She was in the wrong place. She should have stepped outside the speaker hall (empty and rather pointless, yes) and got chatting to the thousands of developers in the main stand area – there was more buzz there this year than any other Symbian show I can remember.

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