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Nokia’s failure was something that just had to happen - Nokia, realistically, couldn’t have done much about it.

In 2007, around half of all mobile phones sold were Nokia phones. These guys were massively dominant.

Below is my last Nokia, which I bought in 2007. It was a fantastic smartphone.

Less than 10% of all phones sold were smartphones, but even in that growing space Nokia, with its Symbian, had dominance.

But in 2007 something happened that you can’t really blame Nokia for. A nut job, Steve Jobs, made this insanely great smartphone that didn’t even have a keyboard, the iPhone. Not only that, he made buying apps so easy that people would actually buy them, making smartphones so much more useful.

And then, to make matters worse, Google decided to partner with every smartphone manufacturer in the world via Android, which would emulate the iPhone. And they didn’t care whether they made any money or not so gave the software for free.

I mean, what were Nokia supposed to do? It’s far more difficult changing a legacy software, like Symbian, than making an essentially new one like Google did with Android. And given they were so dominant in both hardware and software, they couldn’t have really abandoned either.

Ok, in hindsight they should have adopted Android, but fat chance that was going to happen given Android was way behind, and a competitor.

And so the reason Nokia failed was because shit happens…

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Another reason may be their acquisition by Microsoft

They got distracted and did not innovate in time

Their phones got uglier with lack of memory space and camera quality.

Android apps are easier to develop than Java and Symbian apps, so e no take long , there were millions of android apps


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Nokia decided to go with Microsoft Windows instead of Android.
They were delusional because of their market size. Before they got their grip , Tecno, Infinix Itel and others have already gained relevance in the business.

Nokia the kind of symbian and java those days.. I remember how we used to 'worship' the N-series and E-series those days.. i had the E-6 foldable keyboard then. It was the bomb.

You have more knowledge about the fall of the "giant" Nokia phones. The issue goes down with the acquisition by Microsoft.

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Another reason may be their acquisition by Microsoft

They got distracted and did not innovate in time

Their phones got uglier with lack of memory space and camera quality.

Android apps are easier to develop than Java and Symbian apps, so e no take long , there were millions of android apps


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Na Microsoft kpai Nokia career. And Nokia no believe say person wey belleful today go still hungry tomorrow, cos they had large user base.

Just like blackberry,

Nokia failed because they did not join the current moving train.

The train left them far far behind,

Samsung copped that train and no regrets till date.

They didn't change. They thought they could rival Android and Ios. The rest is history.