Financial Times has an article “How Nokia went from iPhone victim to $1bn Nvidia deal. Finnish company that brought the world the 3310 has reinvented itself for the AI revolution“ which talks about the Nokia history. Client Challenge
It states: “The arrival of the iPhone and cheaper, Android-based smartphones sparked a collapse in Nokia’s sales and appeared to put the company behind the wildly popular 3310 handset on the path to irrelevance“
What’s interesting is that the highest ranking comment is actually about Jolla, Sailfish and promotes the new phone:
“Nokia had an amazing smartphone OS, and a decent example of it on hardware, the cult-classic N9. Then Microsoft’s Steph Elop was made Nokia’s CEO, killed that project and had Nokia adopt windows as their smartphone OS, leading to oblivion in the market.
The engineers behind Maemo quit, formed a company (Jolla) that made Maemo into Sailfish, an OS which is the last viable alternative to Android/iOS.
And they are still around, making a new, privacy focused, open and community designed phone.At the time, everyone just wanted the convenience and traction of something like Android and iOS. Nowadays there is a lot more awareness of what we give away to Google/Apple by locking ourselves into their eco-systems, and the value of a European-based alternative is obvious.“
Several follow ups also from readers using Sailfish phones (C2, Xperia 10 III).