Developers rethink Nokia Recession: Premature death of Symbian is a big mistake

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"A few years of spring grass rest, this rimutuqiong." "Today, the Nokia survival crisis has become the industry's most concerned about the topic, all the words are under the question of what is the reason for the decline?"

Look through the previous Tencent Technology's exclusive report on Nokia, you may be able to find some answers. and betting on Windows Phone platform, premature to pronounce Symbian "capital punishment" is considered "the culprit", which from the Tencent technology dialogue of the Symbian developers and some of the domestic Nokia enthusiasts to support the mouth.

Symbian "death penalty" announces premature developer forced out

A foreign media source said that the Symbian platform classic Twitter client gravity developer Janolesuhr refused to develop Windows Phone version of the gravity client, Nokia is being kicked out of the developer program. Janolesuhr said that all of his money was earned on the Symbian platform, and he didn't expect to pay off on Windows Phone.

Nokia is currently pushing Windows Phone to market, hoping to bring more Symbian users into the Windows Phone bosom, and if Symbian's classic apps are on the Windows Phone platform, Symbian users are switching to Windows The phone platform has more opportunities.

Symbian is the operating system the Symbian company designed for mobile phones. December 2, 2008, Symbian Company was bought by Nokia. December 21, 2011, Nokia officially renounced the Symbian brand. On May 27, 2012, Nokia announced that it would completely abandon its development of Symbian Carla and cancel the development of Symbian, and terminate all its support for Symbian by the end of 2012, at the latest in 2014.

Andorid and iOS accounted for 85% of total shipments in the global smartphone market in the second quarter of 2012, according to IDC data, a record high. Symbian has fallen below 5%. In the face of this scenario, more than 90% Nokia Ovi stores based on the Symbian platform also have a sharp decline in the number of applications.

According to a person engaged in Symbian application development to Tencent technology, because of Nokia's early "capital punishment" announced by Symbian, from the second half of last year, its development of Symbian application has stalled, because with Nokia's gradual abandonment of Symbian and its terminal shipments of declining, The amount of downloads that a single app has dropped on the Nokia Ovi has fallen from the previous average of thousands of downloads to now dozens of times per day, and the benefits are almost Nil.

It is understood that the Nokia Ovi Store in 2010 about 1 million of the download, by the first half of 2011 this volume grew to 5 million a day, at the end of 2011 after the Nokia announced the brand, to today's download less than 2 million per day.

Another relevant practitioner also said that the current application development has been the main trend of Andorid and iOS two platforms, Nokia is hoping that some of the old Symbian developers can continue to support the Windows Phone platform, but currently the platform products are not listed on the scale, the user base is not much, It is most people's attitude to be in the wait-and-see stage.

It is understood that in 5 months, the Windows phone App Store marketplace in the number of applications exceeded 100,000, and before about 14 months before the 50,000 applications, but compared to the Android and iOS platform more than 500,000 and 60多万个 application gap is still very large. For the Chinese market, Lumia at the end of March after landing at home, currently only provides about 35,000 available applications, about 44% of the application after the audit in the domestic application mall can be shelves, and the local application of only 5,500.

The person also said that Nokia and Microsoft on the Windows Phone platform for developers of the strategy and revenue model compared to the previous two platform is not clear enough, and if not developed to support the Windows Phone platform application, it also means that over the years and Nokia good cooperation will end, So many developers reluctantly choose to give up or continue to wait.

For such a scenario, the developers agreed that the slow pace of smartphone strategy coupled with the premature announcement of Symbian's "death penalty" was the biggest mistake Nokia has made.

However, some optimists believe that it is not necessarily a bad thing to give up Symbian to hold Microsoft, and it will take time to verify. Moreover Symbian has accumulated many years of user base in the market, can win the time for the development of Windows Phone handset. Microsoft's advantages on the PC side can also quickly compensate for the flaws in Windows Phone's ecosystem.

Enthusiasts are sure N9 Nokia is also defeated by this

Some of Nokia's domestic enthusiasts are deeply impressed by what developers think is the premature announcement of the "death penalty" of Symbian. At the same time, they prefer to comment on the product level of Nokia, N9 is what they think the last "passion" for Nokia.

When it comes to Nokia's feelings, one Nokia hardcore user sighs: "For Nokia has always been passionate, since the first Nokia mobile phone in 2001 until now the passion has not been reduced, the passion is produced by its products, now the product is not (no innovative products), the passion will naturally fade." ”

He admits that Nokia N9 is an important turning point and a last passion for Nokia. The world's first Meego smartphone for Nokia product planning, has accumulated considerable valuable experience for its research and development team, these successful elements will be gradually applied to more products, such as the current Lumia series.

Speaking of N9, the first and foremost is the innovative process, this is the world's first front of the body has no button design of the mobile phone, innovative use of 2.5D surface screen design, 3.9-inch AMOLED screen surface has a layer of polycarbonate material with a high strength scratch-resistant arc glass, wear-resistant and fall not fade; system, Equipped with more than 1000 improved MeeGoPR1.3 system upgrades.

Another mobile portal practitioner, Nokia's enthusiasts added, "In fact, N9 's strategic significance is to bring out the back of the lumia,n9 from the first day of release, Nokia said that this is the last Meego, this word is meant to fail, so can not only see the N9 market effect, Its innovation and the idea is bigger than the operating system itself, its strategic significance is bigger than the actual market reaction, cannot but say N9 is a regret. ”

Interestingly, some people who are not willing to quit silently seek the opportunity to counterattack and re-establish Meego status. Jolla, a mysterious organization composed of former Nokia Meego project staff, said they had taken over Meego's gun, and perhaps Meego still had its own future.

Whether it's a pity or a last passion, Nokia's future path is fraught with thorns and, of course, another future. The dialogue Tencent technology people have also said that the second half of the WindowsPhone8 after the advent of Nokia may be a turnaround, because has seen a lot of mobile phone operators said that the launch of products based on this, at least the scale do not worry. With the scale, the application development chain is a touch, and Nokia in the strategic transformation began to focus on cooperation with operators, although some late, but deep market brand influence no one operator will easily refused Nokia door.

Remember Fan Bingbing starring N9 Micro-film bar, "If patience is strong, I choose to resist." If the compromise is an effort, I choose to fight, if the future will be wonderful, I will never give up now, maybe you think I'm crazy, just like I think you too ordinary, my real, will prove myself. "Nokia does not follow, need courage and time, courage has been, the rest is the test of time."