Former vice president of the CD on Palm brilliant mistake advised Nokia to reduce product segmentation

Beijing time September 19 afternoon news, according to foreign media reports, the former Palm Design department vice President Peter Skilman (Peter Skillman) announced to join Nokia, responsible for the Meego user experience and service sector.　　In a design talk with Zurb, a design company, he recently revealed why he joined Nokia and his views on the smartphone industry.　　In a one-hour lecture, Skillman candidly talked about his 11-year experience with palm and the brilliance and missteps of his company. Although Palm was once the leader in the PDA market, 2000 years later, before the pre was released, "Everyone thinks Palm is dead."　　"To revive confidence in palm, he has done a lot of palm planning to return to the smartphone sector in the design field to persuade operators to work with Palm again," Skillman said. Skillman was proud of the pre-mobile phone released in June 2009. He claims that the Synergy feature in the pre can get information from multiple sources, such as social networking sites, and aggregate it into a contact list, "which is a better feature than any desktop solution."　　He also praised Palm's wireless charger Touchstone and Palm Pixi's "compact design". Meanwhile, Skillman openly talked about Palm's flaws in his speech. He said the Palm pre and Pixi occasionally had "performance problems" because the browsers of the two phones were built on WebKit technology and WebKit technology was relatively new.　　He also admits that Palm's webOS prompts users for new information and missed calls that can sometimes confuse users. He also disclosed that he had received a nine-day interview before joining Nokia, during which time he compared Nokia's current situation with palm prior to the launch of the pre. "I want to inject some passion into the implementation of Nokia, as I did in palm." Skillman said he was trying to tell Nokia's top executives about the benefits of reducing product segmentation. He thinks that most handset makers are now "too fragmented" about the consumer market, producing too many models. "It's a distraction," he adds, "and I want Nokia to focus on a handful of really great products." "Skillman has a view of the U.S. mobile phone market, too.　　He believes that in the United States, mobile operators to the mobile phone subsidies are very strong, so the high-end mobile phone industry to do bad manufacturers will be "doomed to fail", the entire market will end up with only five manufacturers. For those who are trying to stand out, Skillman lists several qualities that are essential, including "very tempting" hardware configurations, cloud services, rich, physically interactive user interfaces, and a powerful developer community. "If any of these qualities are not available, then the manufacturer is dead." "Skillman also advises handset makers to embrace the latestTrends, such as gesture recognition, and the convergence of mobile phones, televisions and computers, and suggest embedding Web browsers in all products from printers to automobiles. Skillman also stressed that mobile phone manufacturers must have a sense of innovation.　　He said he was experimenting with the iphone and Samsung Galaxy S handsets and was optimistic about the upcoming Windows Phone 7. "There's not a single operating system left on the market," Skillman said. "It's impossible for everyone to wear the same shoes or wear the same watch, and so does the smartphone market." "(slides)