Mobile Phone Brands by Market Share (2007 vs 2025) (www.shithot.co.uk)
from Eavesy@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 16:40
https://lemmy.world/post/35491154

What happened to Nokia?

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genau@europe.pub on 05 Sep 16:46 next collapse

Microsoft happened to Nokia.

FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi on 05 Sep 17:26 collapse

They were already losing before MS bought them.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 17:34 collapse

Elop came from MS and always seemed like he was there to sabotage Nokia

tal@lemmy.today on 05 Sep 18:05 collapse

sabotage

Microsoft’s interest in Nokia was being able to compete with what is now a duopoly between Google and Apple in phones. They wanted to own a mobile platform. I am very confident that they did not want their project to flop. That being said, they’ll have had their own concerns and interests. Maybe Nokia would have done better to go down the Apple or Google path, but for Microsoft, the whole point was to get Microsoft-platform hardware out there.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 19:47 next collapse

Maybe sabotage isn’t the right word, but his decisions seemed to be more for Microsoft’s benefit than for Nokia’s.

bufalo1973@piefed.social on 05 Sep 21:10 collapse

Microsoft wanted a platform... for Windows CE, not Nokia's MeeGo or Symbian. That was the problem. Elop destroyed Nokia to get the only the name.

Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 05 Sep 16:46 next collapse

Mistake after mistake after mistake.

fubarx@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 17:10 next collapse

Palm 😔

7rokhym@lemmy.ca on 05 Sep 21:18 next collapse

TBF, Motorola is a bit misleading. Nothing against the product, (I love my RAZR), but they were basically diminished to a brand-name that is now owned by Lenovo.

Buffalox@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 21:33 next collapse

Motorola phones are not American anymore, the phone part was bought by Lenovo and is now 100% Chinese.
So for 2025 it’s only Samsung and Apple on the list that are not Chinese.

mysteriouswineglass@lemmy.zip on 06 Sep 03:55 next collapse

I just found my old BlackBerry Bold… I miss that thing!

decended_being@midwest.social on 06 Sep 08:44 next collapse

In 2007 I had a Palm. I miss that brand.

roofuskit@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 10:56 collapse

I really hate that they put Motorola on there. That’s Lenovo, Motorola doesn’t make phones anymore, anyone who worked for Motorola and made cell phones either stayed at Google during the sale or moved to another company. It’s literally just the Motorola brand slapped on Lenovo products because that’s all Lenovo bought, the brand. They got not IP, no employees, nothing but the name.