{"id":76,"date":"2007-10-29T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/29\/focus-on-nokia\/"},"modified":"2007-10-29T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T14:20:00","slug":"focus-on-nokia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/29\/focus-on-nokia\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on Nokia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/RyXvJOROIaI\/AAAAAAAABUs\/0lKDLUfUSqE\/s1600-h\/Nokia_logo_small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;cursor:pointer;margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/RyXvJOROIaI\/AAAAAAAABUs\/0lKDLUfUSqE\/s320\/Nokia_logo_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This is less of a commentary of the way you would normally find here but more a reference to a rather good <a href=\"http:\/\/members.forbes.com\/forbes\/2007\/1112\/DONOTTOUCH048.html\">Forbes article<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nokia.com\/\">Nokia<\/a>. It is a glowing review for one but it also recapitulates Nokia&#8217;s changing fortunes in particular in two areas, namely its various attempts to converting itself into a media company (or a hardware company with a powerful media side to it) and its dealings in the US market (where Nokia has fallen to an astonishingly low market share of only 10% by failing to realise that US Americans love clamshells; its global <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moconews.net\/entry\/419-nokia-dominates-world-handset-market-in-q3\/\">market share<\/a> is 39.2%).<\/p>\n<p>On the media front, Nokia has been rather busy recently, both on the buy side (<a href=\"http:\/\/volkersthoughts.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/nokia-pockets-enpocket.html\">Enpocket<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/volkersthoughts.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/nokia-maps-it-out-buys-navteq.html\">Navteq<\/a>) as well as with another internally conceived programme (<a href=\"http:\/\/volkersthoughts.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/nokia-opens-doors-if-you-read-finnish.html\">Ovi<\/a>) and some new investments through the fresh Nokia Growth Partners fund, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vollee.com\/\">Vollee<\/a> (streaming rich PC games to mobile phones) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kyte.tv\/\">Kyte<\/a> (in short a multi-platform YouTube). And, as Forbes reports, it now also seems to make strides in the US market: it has entered a deal to supply phones to AT&amp;T (starting with the 6555 tailormade for the US market), and also seems to work with Verizon on improving its footprint there.<\/p>\n<p>Nokia will apparently ship 430m units this year alone. In doing so it grabs 80% of the industry&#8217;s profits on 39.2% of the market share. Going from strength to strength, it seems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is less of a commentary of the way you would normally find here but more a reference to a rather good Forbes article on Nokia. It is a glowing review for one but it also recapitulates Nokia&#8217;s changing fortunes in particular in two areas, namely its various attempts to converting itself into a media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[193,220,335,455,471,497,702],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-enpocket","tag-forbes","tag-kyte","tag-navteq","tag-nokia","tag-ovi","tag-vollee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-1e","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}