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Re: OkTrends: a fact-based blog on dating behaviour

ideal partner — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:11:00 -0000

Nice post ......................................................

Re: The King is dead. Long live the King.

Reija — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:54:48 -0000

Well, Canadian :) I am welcoming the change, and hope to enjoy the ride!

Re: http://m78.tumblr.com/post/966877319

hannesw — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:00:07 -0000

Go Nokia! X3-02 looks like a perfect upgrade from my (beloved) Nokia 1200. (N9 kauf ich mir sowieso)

Re: the Stickiness of a Mobile OS

Michael Platzer — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:50:27 -0000

Yes, that's exactly the point. Once you get used to a platform, you would rather like to stick with it (in case you are somewhat satisfied). Even for us Tech savvy users switching always comes at a cost: learning the new interface, the risk of being dissatisfied, etc. And that's why manufacturers (RIM, also Samsung, RIM) would like to remain in control of the platform. In particular, as software seems to gain in importance in comparison to the hardware device itself.

And why Nokia is currently betting on 2 platforms is easy to answer: Symbian is what millions of people globally are used to, and it is volume-wise the unchallenged OS for low- to mid-end devices. So, for the above reasons alone, you wouldn't want to stop it. Maemo on the other hand started out at the very high-end, and originated from Nokia's (mini-)Tablet devices. The future (of which i don't know anything more than anyone else :-)) will show whether high- and low-end, and thus the 2 systems will eventually converge.

Re: the Stickiness of a Mobile OS

smi — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:27:20 -0000

I wonder if this is because of you always prefer what you currently use. I frequently hear myself say that the "iPhone is the best mobile device I ever owned", but probably there are equally good devices (with the according OS) out there.

So if 70 % of the Android user want to stay on their platform and about 90 % of iOS users say the same, I would guess that 70+ % of Symbian users would say the same. I remember when people would always answer the question why they kept buying Nokia phones, they would say "the OS is great and I know my way round already".

A loosely related question: why is Nokia betting on two platforms?

Re: Fanpage Analytics

Guest — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:49:31 -0000

Fan Page Analytics is a very impressive project, especially considering that it's a one-person operation ...

Re: http://m78.tumblr.com/post/395252169

teemu — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:15:38 -0000

how true;

Re: Data Dashboards

Michael Platzer — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:14:51 -0000

thanks for the links. Especially thanks for pointing me towards information aesthetics, as this made me to open up at least 20 more browser tabs (e.g. I instantly love these projects: http://hint.fm/) exploring most of the really interesting content there. For some reason, the last time I've visisted that site, I got the impression that they were only concerned with 'eye candy' charts (ie charts which rather try to please the eye, than trying to reveal any insight).

Re: Data Dashboards

Markus Schmeiduch — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:51:44 -0000

http://www.haveamint.com

Re: Data Dashboards

Robert Thurnher — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:45:12 -0000

Ah, a little off-topic, but since Moritz Stefaner's elastic lists visualizations are just too slick to not be mentioned: http://moritz.stefaner.eu/p... :)

Re: Data Dashboards

Robert Thurnher — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:35:40 -0000

Apart from Google (who really own this place; at least outside "the Enterprise", that is), there are some nice, more specialized apps concerning http://search.twitter.com/search?q=opendata (often maps-based), e.g., http://geo.me/climate (Tim Berners-Lee's tweets are also of particular interest, in this respect).
Plus, tho it's merely QA than dashboard, http://wolframalpha.com/ might be interesting as well.
HTH.

Re: R goes Web2.0

Michael Platzer — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:26:21 -0000

thanks for the pointer. I wasn't aware of that either.

Re: R goes Web2.0

Guest — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:21:47 -0000

There's also a rather active circle of R-ians on Twitter proper:

http://search.twitter.com/s...

Re: Tumbling Towards Enlightenment - For most of the foreigners who move to Finland,...

Michael Platzer — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:18:37 -0000

treffender hätte man es nicht beschreiben können :-)

Re: Tumbling Towards Enlightenment - For most of the foreigners who move to Finland,...

Robert Thurnher — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:45:44 -0000

tu felix suomi..? ;)

Re: Rrrrattle

Michael Platzer — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:56:55 -0000

wow, whats the matter with these kiwis? lots of good stuff (R, ggplot2, Weka, etc.) seems to be originating in New Zealand. they must have long, tough winters as well :)

Re: Rrrrattle

Robert Thurnher — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:15:52 -0000

BTW, Weka's also offering a pretty neat GUI for performing extensive data mining resp. machine learning experiments. http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz...

Re: What would you do if you were in charge at Nokia?

Michael Platzer — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:39:35 -0000

hi hannes, thanks a lot for your take on the subject!

I especially like your reasoning on reducing the product portfolio. Nokia seems to be going that way a little bit, but that means cutting from 20 smartphones down to sthg like 10 per year i guess :-)

regarding the OS: Honestly I know little about symbian vs maemo, in particular on a technical perspective (also because I never owned a Nokia smartphone). I can sense that everybody is complaining about the User Experience, but I am not sure whether there are real fundamental issues reg symbian that would keep Nokia from fixing that.

Re: What would you do if you were in charge at Nokia?

haswez — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:09:03 -0000

small edit to my post. the points i refer to are linked to the comments of smime.
http://www.smime.at/blog/20...

Re: What would you do if you were in charge at Nokia?

haswez — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:57:51 -0000

i´d consider a three action line approach for nokia:

1) os: maemo
2) portfolio: 3 phone strategy
3) focus: mobile communication

such an approach would require problem awareness & leadership to implement though. two things i am not sure of at the moment.

ad 1) leave the legacy symbian s40/60 behind and not force an evolutionary - broken like s60 5th edition - approach. took almost two years to implement, still does not work. goes in line with your 2nd point.

ad 2) rather then confusing customers with a sheer endless portfolio of phones and thus relatively limited marketing and user-support power behind every and each model, focus on 3 working products.
considering your point 3 and the fact that the existing business is still a cash cow, the change is less risky then what palm did.

ad 3) no gaming, no podcast service, no mapping (although i like the offline feature), no musik business,.... instead refocusing on the core business & re-use the then free ressources in on 1&2. that be my view on 4 & 5 of your summary.

Re: What would you do if you were in charge at Nokia?

Robert Thurnher — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:07:51 -0000

I see, makes sense.

Re: What would you do if you were in charge at Nokia?

Michael Platzer — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:06:33 -0000

I agree that it takes bolder moves, than whats currently on the plate, in order to ~~catch up with~~ stay close to the rest of the mobile OS party. but moreover I believe that its some kind of organizational/structurial cause that keeps Nokia behind its possibilities. Therefore -> item #1 on the list.

Re: What would you do if you were in charge at Nokia?

Robert Thurnher — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:53:28 -0000

Pity. Plus, supports the notion to put as many reasonable resources/efforts into the latter as possible (to bring it up to speed ASAP).
And I'd still abandon the former completely, that's also the fun part part of imagining to be Nokia. :)

Re: What would you do if you were in charge at Nokia?

Michael Platzer — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:46:14 -0000

I assume the focus has already shifted, but completely abandoning the still dominant OS is certainly not going to happen anytime soon. Further, Maemo still takes some time to ripe. Avi Greengart states at slashgear that "Maemo is nowhere near ready for mainstream consumers".

Re: What would you do if you were in charge at Nokia?

Robert Thurnher — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:09:14 -0000

If I were Nokia I'd completely abandon Symbian for product development and focus on Maemo (and/or some more lightweight *nix-based OS equipped w/ a sexy, fast, standards-compliant browser).