A little late to the party, but it can be argued that the show has only just begun, and the next few years will tell the whole story.
However, as we know with hindsight, a few moments' head start is like forever in the hi-tech world, so there is quite considerable catching up to do. This is the price to be paid for complacency and inertia, especially when occupying a leading market position.
Those expecting another shenanigan-laden Microsoft-esque repeat ploy to achieve domination in this market as occurred in the PC world should think again - only natural, legitimate monopolies of technology, marketing and innovation (Google?) will rule the roost given the current global hindsight, knowledge and vigilance of the world's legislative bodies when it comes to "doing evil".
This race is for the agile and for the far-sighted, not the unethical...
To be fair Nokia has good reason for falling behind. They purchased the company Trolltech a bit ago and plan on using their development platform which supposedly will enable the source code for applications to be platform independent while using C++. This coupled with the fact they are going to integrate their apps for two different ecosystems, symbian and maemo, we see a pretty different approach here. I think Nokia will do fine here and be quite the powerhouse in the app world in the next couple years. I doubt we'll see them overtake Apple any time soon but globally I imagine things are looking pretty good, assuming execution goes well, for them.
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Good luck to Nokia and Ovi.
A little late to the party, but it can be argued that the show has only just begun, and the next few years will tell the whole story.
However, as we know with hindsight, a few moments' head start is like forever in the hi-tech world, so there is quite considerable catching up to do. This is the price to be paid for complacency and inertia, especially when occupying a leading market position.
Those expecting another shenanigan-laden Microsoft-esque repeat ploy to achieve domination in this market as occurred in the PC world should think again - only natural, legitimate monopolies of technology, marketing and innovation (Google?) will rule the roost given the current global hindsight, knowledge and vigilance of the world's legislative bodies when it comes to "doing evil".
This race is for the agile and for the far-sighted, not the unethical...
To be fair Nokia has good reason for falling behind. They purchased the company Trolltech a bit ago and plan on using their development platform which supposedly will enable the source code for applications to be platform independent while using C++. This coupled with the fact they are going to integrate their apps for two different ecosystems, symbian and maemo, we see a pretty different approach here. I think Nokia will do fine here and be quite the powerhouse in the app world in the next couple years. I doubt we'll see them overtake Apple any time soon but globally I imagine things are looking pretty good, assuming execution goes well, for them.