A group of young Nokia investors have devised a Plan B for Nokia. Clearly outraged by the actions of Stephen Elop, the group has made their first order of business removing the former Microsoft exec from his duties as President and CEO of their company. Ready to hear what else they’ve planned?
After appointing a new CEO with an “international mobile industry background”, the young Nokia investors would like to restructure the alliance with Microsoft as a “tactile exercise focused primarily at the North American market”. Not a bad strategy, considering Nokia’s dwindling presence in the states.
Next, MeeGo will be Nokia’s primary smartphone platform — not Windows Phone 7. MeeGo will be used on Nokia smartphones and tablets, offering “superior experiences and applications than iOS and Android based competitor products”. MeeGo R&D will be done in house and if necessary, cooperation with Intel will be suspended.
In order to battle iOS and Android, developers will be key. The group believes a developer strategy based on QT with a primary focus on MeeGo will solve that dilemma. Their logic is that developers will be able to make money by targeting the Symbian install based while simultaneously offering their best user experience on the MeeGo platform.
To keep the money rolling in, the group believes that Symbian lifespan should be increased to a minimum of five years. With dominant market share in Europe and Asia, Symbian profits will continue as the OS is targetted at mid-tier and feature phone segments.
There’s plenty more to the Plan B, but those are the highlights. It’s clear that Stephen Elop’s reign has not been well received thus far — at least from the Nokia’s die hard fan-base. However, sometimes change is good and if Windows Phone 7 will push the innovation and promote more powerful high-end handsets from the manufacturer, we’d be willing to live with the consequences. The cards have been dealt, iOS offers over 350,000 apps and Android 150,000. The time for change is now.
What do you think about Plan B? How would you change it?
via my-symbian
