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12/05/09
People there swear by Nokias (And Sony Ericssons, to a certain extent) and wouldn't buy handsets from another brand, come what may.
Concentrating on this segment is EXACTLY what Nokia should be doing right now. This is what makes their bottom-line. The high visibility, low volume, expensive handset market may be making front page news, but for a worldwide giant like Nokia, their largest and most faithful customerbase exists in the other end of the spectrum.
Judging them by the yardsticks of the smartphone savvy, first world economies is hardly accurate.
12/04/09
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It was just a random, "Wow, go figure!' moment. That's all I was getting at.
So, no, I didn't invent the Internet like Gore did, and Windows 7 was not my idea, and Droid sure as hell Doesn't for me.
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It's easy to conclude, from reading the posts at a typical tech blogsite, that the average consumer has a home theatre in their basement, owns an iPhone 3Gs and at least two Macs and one Linux box, buys ceramic knives, has a complete video collection on BluRay and a 60" LCD TV that's a quarter of an inch thick...
But in fact, that's a rare if even real person. The majority of people by a large margin uses a dumbphone, watches SD TV over the air (grudgingly with an ATSC converter box they got with their $50 government rebate box) and may have some DVDs if they have a player - and probably rent the bulk of their videos.
If they own a computer, it's a PC and a cheap one. If they have Internet, its 50/50 they have broadband (if in the US - in other countries, it's somewhat more likely they'll have broadband).
This disconnect from reality is why you keep reading how Microsoft is on the verge of death (while they maintain a 92% market share) and why Linux and MacOS is about to take over the world, when really neither of them have made significant progress in years or why netbooks are 'too slow and underpowered' to be useful, even though they are the fastest growing segment of the computer market.
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TLDR: Normal people will adopt smartphones quickly due to a low feature to price premium ratio.
11/10/08
Meanwhile the Stella model will feature Marlon Brando screaming at every time the phone rings...
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/correcting douchnozzle