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Care for a little more insight
into Nokia's smartphone development habits? In an email to our pal John
Gruber, a former Nokia software engineer has laid out his perspective
on why the Finnish phone maker seems to be struggling in that lucrative
high-end smartphone market:
"Here's the problem: Hardware Rules at Nokia. The software is
written by the software groups inside of Nokia, and it is then given to
the hardware group, which gets to decide what software goes on the
device, and the environment in which it runs. All schedules are driven
by the hardware timelines. It was not uncommon for us to give them code
that ran perfectly by their own test, only to have them do things like
reduce the available memory for the software to 25% the specified
allocation, and then point the finger back at software when things
failed in the field."
He goes on to say that Nokia's haughtiness extended to the
point of turning an assessment of the iPhone's relative strengths into
a list of reasons why it wouldn't succeed, which --
considering that the doc was compiled at around the 3GS' launch --
seems like a distinctly foolish thing to do. The really interesting bit
here, though, is where that leaves Nokia today. As far as its Design
chief Marko Ahtisaari is concerned, the future's MeeGo all the way, but that new platform was nowhere to be seen at Nokia World this year, and Gruber raises the question of whether Nokia shouldn't perhaps switch to the already ubiquitous Android or soon-to-be-everywhere Windows Phone 7.
Neither makes a ton of sense on the surface, as Nokia's proud tradition
doesn't exactly mesh with dancing to Microsoft's stringent spec tune or
becoming yet another Android phone manufacturer. But in the current
fast-moving market, a good smartphone software platform today might
just be better than a great one tomorrow -- more to the point, we
probably wouldn't be pondering this if Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo was still in charge, but now that a software guy has finally taken the helm, maybe the winds of change might blow once more in Espoo?
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