Is Time Running Out For Nokia's Stephen Elop? [View article]
Yes Trying to pivot a large corporation into a new strategic direction is no mean feat!
So many people think of this as simple as turning on / off a light switch, Nokia has legal commitments in many countries and has to pay these laid off works 12 months of salary, which hurts their bottom line, and most of this will end in Q4 2012. So WP8 os devices should do very well for them in Q3 and Q1 2013. And more so if AT&T and Verizon sell them. My bet is Q2 you will see NOK selling at $6 - $8 or better
Buy Ford As European Division Turns Around [View article]
Ford wasn't bailed out and as recalls go every automotive company has them and do thing Fixing Ford was an easy task? Ford had a jerk running the company and when Bill took over he realized that he could not fix it by himself and brought in Alan. Alan trimmed down the size to something they could manage better. Lincoln is not a disaster but a division going thru a transformation and this will take time, could Alan speed this up, yes I am sure he could but at what cost.
Turning any company around that makes products is not easy and fast unless you gut it and inject a lot of cash into it, and then your into the big problem America has in the first place short term thinking and short term profits
Buy Ford As European Division Turns Around [View article]
I am not a stock broker, but and engineer and can tell you that Alan Mulally was the best thing to happen at Ford. He took a company that was going no where and had to many products and slimmed it down, without US Gov help, so give the guy some credit. Their products are now very good and getting better, and they are trying to rebuild Lincoln with cars like the new 2013 MKZ is a sharp looking car and should sell well, along with the new 2013 Fusion. The 2013 Focus Hatchback is also a great looking car. Alan Mulally made the right decisions by basing the future cars on less number of platforms and I hope he stays around for the next 5 years. I think Ford is missing a sport wagon from its lineup for Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ for those who like a car but need a little more room that a wagon gives you. Just take a 2013 MKZ as a Sports Wagon !
Its not easy for a great CEO to turn years of mis-management around so give him credit for all the work Alan Mulally's has done so far!
Is Time Running Out For Nokia's Stephen Elop? [View article]
In Defense of Mr. Elop, he took on a company that was running in many directions at the same time and changed their focus on products every six months. He has made the company smaller then it was and should continue to make it more lean, and keep dumping management (without naming names) that where clueless in 2010 and if still there are still clueless. Under OPK they spent money like it was growing on trees on products and projects that never went anywhere and he stopped a lot of that, although I think he should have kept MeeGo going and had a dual OS offering.
He should sell of their share of NSN.
One asset they do have is Navteq which is a leader in mapping / navigation. People talk about Symbian and do not realize that its market share was declining fast in 2010 when he took over and yet they still had a lot of influence in Helsinki management and is a big reason Nokia was not the first to release a Linux based OS before Apple & Android. Also most of the European employees get a year severances when they are let go, unlike USA employees, so that adds a lot of cost that he can not shed quickly.
MeeGo is semi still alive outside Nokia and should be re looked at in 2013 as a second OS or bit the bullet and add Android OS to Lumia line. As to Marketing yes they need a better USA marketing team, I will never forget the really BAD TV ads from 2006 - 2007 with some girl talking about dumping her boy friend.
Nokia And Research In Motion Are Jockeying For Third Place Behind Android-iOS Duopoly [View article]
TomTom has decided to terminate their contract with NAVTEQ. From now on, Tele Atlas remains to be the only map supplier for the Dutch company which is owned by TomTom.
You also have to look at the amount of cash they are bleeding per quarter and not how much they have on hand which will be burnt up in a very short period of time if BB 10 does not sell as they hope it will!
Please explain more as to what you are talking about? There are secure email clients that run on iOS,Android, Symbian, WP7 and they are designed to not allow usage if a device is rooted or jailbroken. They use Active Directory and or Domino LDAP for authentication and are not based on native device authentication. Good Technologies, Excitor, LRW, and FIXMO. So all I am saying here is the BES Secure Email client that runs on BB devices needs to be ported to these other devices and then RIM would be a strong contender in the BYOD market. ActiveSync is pushing secure email solutions to the side, partly because people do not understand the value in the separation of consumer / corporate email. I hope this helps with my points because I have been in the email / mobile email business for more then 15 years.
You missed the point ! You are clueless BES and MF will be dead in a few years if not sooner! Yes ActiveSync is native and that was not what I was talking about. No MDM API, so other vendors like Zenprise, MobileIron etc.. cannot manage a BB10 device, so who wants that in their enterprise! But I guess if you work for RIM you will defend them to the end no matter what
"There may be a slight chance that RIMM can pull off a reinvention. Nevertheless, I don't have any ideas about how such a rebirth would occur." Let's name it : BlackBerry 10 + Business Enterprise Server 10
Do you not understand what BYOD has done to BES5 - BES10 ? It is killing their BES Business (FE: yahoo). If and only if RIM had added support for BYOD to BES then maybe, but instead they bought another MDM and called it Mobile Fusion and somehow are trying to say it is what the customers need and want. LOL Customers used BES for its corporate secure email on BB devices, but BYOD has changed everthing and customers now are happy with ActiveSync and other MDM vendors.
Nokia tried to intergrate 2 products and it was a flop Nokia Intellisync MDM and Nokia OMA-DM with a semi shared Admin console.
Let me add one more think that no one talks about:
According to RIIM there will be no BB10 OS API when they release it in Q12013, so all the other MDM Vendors have no way to manage BB10 OS devices, so forget these companies from allowing a (BYOD BB10 device) in their corporate network!
I am glad to hear someone who knows a little about mobility, the BES email app would have kept BES & RIM alive if they had opened it up to run on iOS & Android, but just like they have done in the past they thought and are still thinking they have a lot of loyal customer just waiting for BB10, Those customers are leaving as fast as they can find and install a new solution and Mobile Fusion is not enough to keep them around
Agree 150% and if just half of these people who write anything worked in this industry and followed high tech history then they would see that RIM is standingg on the edge.
My gut feeling is BB10 OS is to little to late, and WP8 will be #3 OS.
RIM has just made too many mistakes over the last few years and when every they come out with new news it is another foot in their mouth. You cannot live on a closed system forever as BES still is and Mobile Fusion is not enought to save them.
I would love to see Nokia add a an E666 style keyboard to an Lumia 920 without all the toggle buttons and a Blackberry Torch style with full Querty keyboard and use the touch screen for toggle buttons.
People need to also think about Nokia Maps and Traffic ( Nevteq.com) and its role in the mobility market. They are giving Google Maps a good run for the money.
I think Nokia could turn things around, but they must get leaner and meaner in their approach. Nokia is like all other giants that still has to much fat hanging on and needs to reduce its size, which means letting more people go, which is a fact of life for companies that take their eyes off the road as others past them by. Microsoft and Nokia could take advantage of their hardware / software in the medical field and look at replacing laptops with tablets, to make users more mobile. They should add Cellular & VOIP to tables with Bluetooth so mobile people can take calls also. Note most hospitals software runs on windows so a tablet running on WP8 would be a nice nitch for them.
Is Time Running Out For Nokia's Stephen Elop? [View article]
Trying to pivot a large corporation into a new strategic direction is no mean feat!
So many people think of this as simple as turning on / off a light switch, Nokia has legal commitments in many countries and has to pay these laid off works 12 months of salary, which hurts their bottom line, and most of this will end in Q4 2012. So WP8 os devices should do very well for them in Q3 and Q1 2013. And more so if AT&T and Verizon sell them. My bet is Q2 you will see NOK selling at $6 - $8 or better
Buy Ford As European Division Turns Around [View article]
Turning any company around that makes products is not easy and fast unless you gut it and inject a lot of cash into it, and then your into the big problem America has in the first place short term thinking and short term profits
Buy Ford As European Division Turns Around [View article]
Its not easy for a great CEO to turn years of mis-management around so give him credit for all the work Alan Mulally's has done so far!
Stick A Fork In RIM, They Are Done [View article]
Is Time Running Out For Nokia's Stephen Elop? [View article]
He should sell of their share of NSN.
One asset they do have is Navteq which is a leader in mapping / navigation.
People talk about Symbian and do not realize that its market share was declining fast in 2010 when he took over and yet they still had a lot of influence in Helsinki management and is a big reason Nokia was not the first to release a Linux based OS before Apple & Android.
Also most of the European employees get a year severances when they are let go, unlike USA employees, so that adds a lot of cost that he can not shed quickly.
MeeGo is semi still alive outside Nokia and should be re looked at in 2013 as a second OS or bit the bullet and add Android OS to Lumia line. As to Marketing yes they need a better USA marketing team, I will never forget the really BAD TV ads from 2006 - 2007 with some girl talking about dumping her boy friend.
Nokia And Research In Motion Are Jockeying For Third Place Behind Android-iOS Duopoly [View article]
So as I know it there are 3 mapping based systesm
Google
Tele Atlas
Nevteq
Nokia And Research In Motion Are Jockeying For Third Place Behind Android-iOS Duopoly [View article]
Please correct me if I am wrong with my facts!
iOS is based on BSD Unix ( A UNIX OS that has been around for more then 20 years) (OS 2007)
Android is based on Linux ( A UNIX OS that has been around for more then 10 years) (OS 2007)
BB10 is based on QNX ( A UNIX OS that has been around for more then 20 years)
WebOS is a Linux based OS (OS 2009)
Windows & Symbian are the two non UNIX / Linux based OS's
Nokia / Intel MeeGo is a Linux based OS (OS 2010)
Nokia Maemo is a Linux based OS (OS 2005–OS 2008)
So to say that Google ripped off Apple is not true
Stick A Fork In RIM, They Are Done [View article]
You also have to look at the amount of cash they are bleeding per quarter and not how much they have on hand which will be burnt up in a very short period of time if BB 10 does not sell as they hope it will!
Stick A Fork In RIM, They Are Done [View article]
Stick A Fork In RIM, They Are Done [View article]
BES and MF will be dead in a few years if not sooner!
Yes ActiveSync is native and that was not what I was talking about. No MDM API, so other vendors like Zenprise, MobileIron etc.. cannot manage a BB10 device, so who wants that in their enterprise!
But I guess if you work for RIM you will defend them to the end no matter what
Stick A Fork In RIM, They Are Done [View article]
"There may be a slight chance that RIMM can pull off a reinvention. Nevertheless, I don't have any ideas about how such a rebirth would occur."
Let's name it : BlackBerry 10 + Business Enterprise Server 10
Do you not understand what BYOD has done to BES5 - BES10 ?
It is killing their BES Business (FE: yahoo). If and only if RIM had added support for BYOD to BES then maybe, but instead they bought another MDM and called it Mobile Fusion and somehow are trying to say it is what the customers need and want. LOL Customers used BES for its corporate secure email on BB devices, but BYOD has changed everthing and customers now are happy with ActiveSync and other MDM vendors.
Nokia tried to intergrate 2 products and it was a flop
Nokia Intellisync MDM and Nokia OMA-DM with a semi shared Admin console.
Let me add one more think that no one talks about:
According to RIIM there will be no BB10 OS API when they release it in Q12013, so all the other MDM Vendors have no way to manage BB10 OS devices, so forget these companies from allowing a (BYOD BB10 device) in their corporate network!
Stick A Fork In RIM, They Are Done [View article]
Stick A Fork In RIM, They Are Done [View article]
My gut feeling is BB10 OS is to little to late, and WP8 will be #3 OS.
RIM has just made too many mistakes over the last few years and when every they come out with new news it is another foot in their mouth. You cannot live on a closed system forever as BES still is and Mobile Fusion is not enought to save them.
Can Nokia Turn Things Around? [View article]
People need to also think about Nokia Maps and Traffic ( Nevteq.com) and its role in the mobility market. They are giving Google Maps a good run for the money.
Can Nokia Turn Things Around? [View article]