The last 24 hours has bought relentless unrest to the mobile marketplace, barely a week into the iPhone sales. Will this rampage ever end?
Late yesterday, the online blogs and news media went into a frenzy following reports that Microsoft had killed KIN just six weeks after the consumer smartphone went on sale. Today, T-Mobile revealed that Sidekick sales stop tomorrow; this comes as no surprise following KIN’s premature death.
If you are one of the die hard Symbian fans, the name Symbian-Guru would surely sound familiar. The famous Symbian based website has been a popular hangout for the owners (hardcore Symbian fanboys) since the last four years, posting regular updates in order help other Symbian owners.
One of the most famous fanboys and advocates of the Symbian platform have now turned against it. Nokia’s lack of innovation and its same old strategies have led to an outbreak even among its own fans.
Rita El Khouri, Symbian Guru Ricky Cadden has finally let go of his frustration against a company and an Operating System they preached and supported over the years. In a blog he lashed out at Nokia saying that the company was ‘loosing it’ and that “You guys are losing. Hard. Wake the hell up. Repeating the same things while expecting a different result is insanity. I’ve been a huge Nokia fan since my 2nd cell phone, and I just can t do it any longer. You guys aren’t competing like you once were, and everyone but you seems to see that. You used to build the world s best smart phones, the world s best cameras, the world s best GPS units you’ve lost pretty much all of that."
Ricky is not too excited about the upcoming N8 either, which according to him will end up in the same place that the N97 did. He says that it initially looks attractive but as once starts using it, the phone quickly looses its sheen.
Nokia claims that 1 billion people use its handsets. But for how long will it last with even its most faithful abandoning it? Is it coincidental that KIN, Symbian-Guru and Sidekick have all been killed just a week after the iPhone was launched? You decide.
