...SYMBIAN CASE 1. What are the differences between the business models implemented by Symbian, Google, and Apple? So first talking about Apple we can clearly see that that are really focused on innovation and they want to deliver a balance product when it comes to system and design. They handle the creation of their OS system so they have a lot of control over it. So as we can see they focus a lot on product innovation and having a lot of control over their processes so they can be sure they the quality of the product is up to their requirements and they can charge the price they want. Second, Google is offering a common platform among devices , they want to "standardise" the cellphone market and by offering the same thing to Evonne to run in different phones is a good way to do it. The way they are making money is through advertisement given that they are passing their knowledge to other companies to use their OS. Finally when it came to Symbian we can say that they sell adaptable licensees and work on one basic OS. They make it work in order to sell it to a lot of people by working with the ones making the apps, so in the end they offer a better product. So also allows them to create money from them and not from final costumers. 2. What is your assessment of Microsoft’ s performance in the mobile space? Microsoft was not new to entering markets late, and the mobile phone one was no difference. Even when they did not have any experience in mobile phone...
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...Future of Symbian OS lthough Symbian is still the most popular OS in the world, it is often overshadowed by Apple␣s iPhone and Google Android operating system. Its future looks very dim as it has lost 18.8% of its market share in 2011 Q2 shipments compared to 2010 Q2 shipments (BBC, 2010). Symbian once dominated the smart phone market, having shipments more than all of its competitors combined. Symbian benefited from better battery life and lower hardware requirements that its competitors since it was born. But it is no longer competing to be the best phone OS, or the best smart phone OS, it␣s now competing to be the best OS for internet phones (TechCrunch, 2010). Great internet phones like iPhone and Android include better web browsing, better multimedia, and apps of all shapes and sizes and as well as better UI to make all that content accessible. Symbian has never been an OS for internet phones. The Symbian definition of a smart phone was a phone with PDA functions. The browser was always a second class citizen, a third-party component ␣ Opera by default in the early days (TechCrunch, 2010). And long before it was made open source, the platform had a well earned reputation for being hard to program but this was hugely beneficial to Symbian as a business in the early days. 80% of Symbian␣s revenues were earned through consulting for licenses (TechCrunch, 2010). Symbian␣s licensees each had their own proprietary telephony chipsets that needed to be integrated and their own...
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...Symbian is an open-source (EPL) mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphones and currently maintained by Accenture.[5] Symbian was originally developed by Symbian Ltd.,[6] as a descendant of Psion's EPOC and runs exclusively on ARM processors, although an unreleased x86 port existed. The current form of Symbian is an open-source platform developed by Symbian Foundation in 2009, as the successor of the original Symbian OS. Symbian was used by many major mobile phone brands, like Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and above all by Nokia. It was the most popular smartphone OS on a worldwide average until the end of 2010, when it was overtaken by Android. Symbian rose to fame from its use with the S60 platform built by Nokia, first released in 2002 and powering most Nokia smartphones. UIQ, another Symbian platform, ran in parallel, but these two platforms were not compatible with each other. Symbian^3, was officially released in Q4 2010 as the successor of S60 and UIQ, first used in the Nokia N8, to use a single platform for the OS. In May 2011 an update, Symbian Anna, was officially announced, followed by Nokia Belle (previously Symbian Belle) in August 2011.[7][8] On 11 February 2011, Nokia announced that it would use Microsoft's Windows Phone OS as its primary smartphone platform, and Symbian will be its franchise platform, dropping Symbian as its main smartphone OS of choice.[9][10] On 22 June 2011 Nokia made an agreement with Accenture for...
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...No 4064/89 concerning non-disclosure of business secrets and other confidential information. The omissions are shown thus [… ]. Where possible the information omitted has been replaced by ranges of figures or a general description. PUBLIC VERSION MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(a) PROCEDURE To the notifying parties Dear Sirs, Subject: Case No IV/JV.12 – ERICSSON / NOKIA / PSION / MOTOROLA (SYMBIAN II) Notification of 20 November 1998 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation No. 4064/89 1. On 20 November 1998, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 [ OJ L 395, 30.12.1989 p. 1; corrigendum OJ L 257 of 21.9.1990, p. 13; as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1310/97, OJ L 180, 9. 7. 1997, p. 1, corrigendum in OJ L 40, 13.2.1998, p. 17 .] by which Motorola, Inc. (“Motorola”) would acquire joint control in Symbian Limited (“Symbian”). As a result of the operation, Motorola, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (“Ericsson”), Nokia Corporation (“Nokia”) and Psion PLC (“Psion”) would jointly control Symbian. 2. Having examined the notification, the Commission has concluded that the notified operation does not fall within the scope of the Merger Regulation. I PARTIES 3. Ericsson, Nokia and Motorola are all active in developing, manufacturing and marketing...
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...they use and could use in that respect. The main idea of the paper is that the principle “differentiate or die” (Jack Trout) has died. Today the global brands don’t strive to differ from their competitors in everything and at any cost. As an example, let’s have a global look at the business of mobile phones. In June 1998 Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Psion established their own International Strategic Alliance, a private independent company called “Symbian”. Symbian Ltd. is an independent, for-profit company whose mission is to establish Symbian OS as the world standard for mobile digital data systems, primarily for use in cellular telecoms. So, the three biggest mobile phone companies at that time and Psion, a mobile PC company, created a new way for competing and differentiating. Today Symbian Ltd. is owned by Ericsson, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. Figure 1 shows the percentage of shares of each shareholding company: Figure 1 Shareholding companies of Symbian and their percentage of shares Source: Symbian Ltd. – Company Ownership, http://www.symbian.com/about/ownership.html Levels of product differentiation Porter has suggested that most industries contain strategic groups of close competitors – groups of firms within an industry that follow the same strategies or ones that have very similar dimensions. For example, similar strategies might include the targeting of the same market segments, the use of identical or similar technology and the employment...
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...Symbian OS is officially the property of Nokia. It means that any other company will have to take permission from Nokia before using this operating system. Nokia has remained a giant in low-end mobile market, so after Java symbian was the most used in the mobile phones till a couple of years ago. Still Symbian is widely used in low-end phones but the demand rate has ben continuously decreasing. By upgrading Symbian mobile OS, Nokia has made it capable to run smartphones efficiently. Symbian ANNA and BELLE are the two latest updates which are currently used in Nokia’s smartphones. Overall, the Symbian OS is excellently designed and is very user-friendly. Unfortunately, Symbian OS graph is going downwards nowadays due to the immense popularity of Android and iOS. Some of the phones currently running on Symbian OS are Nokia C6-01, Nokia 603, Nokia 700, Nokia 808 Pure View, Nokia E6 (ANNA) and Nokia 701 (BELLE). Symbian is a popular choice among nokia dual sim mobile phones as well. September 20th 2008 was the date when Google released the first Android OS by the name of ‘Astro’. After some time next upgraded versions ‘Bender’ and ‘Cupcake’ were also released. Google then adopted the trend of naming android versions after any dessert or a sweet in alphabetical order. The other releases are Donut, Éclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean. Jelly Bean is so far the latest android version from google. Since the platform is not closed like IOS, there...
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...handsets didn't sit well with the carriers, who were entertaining more nimble players like Motorola. Nokia instead receded into a niche brand with a few loyal fans. The company set up its own shops in major cities such as New York, selling its phones directly to consumers without a contract, which meant a high non-subsidized price that only a small set of hard-core devotees were willing to pay. It failed to recognize the threat of the iPhone: Apple's original iPhone shook up the market and changed the expectations of what people could do with a smartphone. Only, that didn't register immediately with everyone in the industry, many of whom were comfortable with older, clunkier platforms such as Windows Mobile, Palm OS, and Nokia's own Symbian. Nokia was particularly blind to the threat of the iPhone. The company was still the undisputed leader in smartphones, something its executives would regularly tout when asked about the iPhone. Nokia had its own application store, but it was a pale imitation of what developers could do with iOS. At that point it was clear Nokia had lost a lot of the buzz that sustained its brand. Its still-strong position was a legacy of its past strength, and as a result, it began to see its market share slowly deteriorate....
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...Samsung, Motorola, HTC, LG, and Nokia. Mobile operating system and mobile browser providers are also considered competitors of Blackberry. Microsoft, Google and Symbian are the biggest competitors of Blackberry in this area. Blackberry smartphones are provided with their own RIM Blackberry OS and web browser, and offer Blackberry app world, which provides blackberry users with a wide range of free and paid apps that they can download to their smart phone. Blackberry also offers their own text messaging software, theme studio, business software and many other features. Apple iPhones come with their own operating system, iOS, and have fully functional using touch screen technology. iPhones offer access to thousands of free and apps using the Apple App store (iTunes). The newest iPhone 4 offers video conferencing and full retina display. Palm offers their own operating system known as palmOS or webOS, depending on the phone. They also offer access to the Palm App Catalog where palm smartphone users can download applications to use on their phone. HTC have a number of smartphones, some of which use Google Android, and others which use Windows Mobile. The newest HTC smartphones use Windows Phone 7 HTC has a number of apps that can be downloaded with Android or Windows Mobile Apps. Nokia smartphones use Symbian OS, which is the mobile OS that has been around the longest. Nokia offers applications that are downloadable using the Ovi App store. Samsung smartphones use Windows...
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...Nokia Rise and Fall EMSE 6005.10 – Organizational Behavior For The Engineering Managers Professor Andy Sakka Abhishek Thakur Akshat Amrut Oswal Nokia history: Nokia was founded by Fredrik Idestam, a mining engineer in 1865. The name Nokia was decided in 1871 when he opened his second paper mill on the bank of Nokianvirta river. Nokia started out with making paper which incidentally was one of the very first technologies used for communications. Fredrik Idestam was the chairman of the company till 1896 when he retired, and Leo Mechelin took over as the chairman. Under Mechelin, Nokia started a new business unit of electricity generation. In 1898, Eduard Polon founded the Finnish Rubber Works, which later became Nokia’s rubber business. They were making everything from galoshes to tires. In 1912, Finnish Cable Works was established by Arvid Wickstrom, which later became Nokia’s cable and electronic business. In 1967, all three of these jointly owned companies came together to form the Nokia corporation. Nokia’s first thrust in telecommunications came when they began developing radio telephones for the army and emergency services. During this period, the company was involved in many businesses including paper products, tire manufacturing, footwears, communication cables, televisions , electricity generation machinery, robotics , chemicals, plastics and many more. By 1987,, Nokia became one of the leading manufacturers of TV in Europe. By 1990, Nokia decided to concentrate...
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...edu, 2 yassin@fau.edu Received 13 January 2011; received in revised form 10 April 2011; accepted 18 May 2011 Abstract A model depicting competitive technoeconomics of business structures specific to mobile-platforms is developed. The underlying co-evolution of large, competing enterprises of mobile-platforms that face customerchurning due to application-preferences and pricing structures in the deregulated ambient is viewed in the perspectives of nonlinear logistic systems akin to that of biological ecosystems. Relevant considerations are decided by and embodied with several stochastically-interacting subsystems. Hence, the temporal dynamics of competition/co-evolution of known competitors in the mobile-platform market, like Android, Symbian and iPhone is depicted by a novel model posing dichotomy of prey-predator flip-flops in the market; and, an asymptotic projection of ex post computations of underlying technoeconomics into the ex ante region would correspond to futuristic forecasts on the performance of test platforms. Further, computed results are exemplified with a sample calculation and associated sensitivity details. Keywords: Mobile-platform, Co-evolution, Competition, Prey-predator model, Technoeconomic forecasting 31 Perambur Neelakanta Raef Yassin A Co-Evolution Model of Competitive Mobile Platforms: Technoeconomic Perspective Journal of Theoretical...
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...mobile market through its majority possession of Symbian shares? * Nokia has cost advantages compared to other mobile phone companies * The Brand status of Nokia is probably one of the top brands globally (Kwong & Wong, 2011). Weaknesses * The N-Gage is seen as a flop * Being the market principal and its high role in Symbian is giving the company a bad picture, just like Microsoft in the PC sector. * The brand is slow in adopting new ways of thinking. For example in clamshell phones which are favored by many customers. * Leverage its communications to get favor and a stronger status with carriers (Kwong & Wong, 2011). Opportunities * enhance their presence in CDMA industry, which they are * New developing markets where product adoption still has space to go, like India and other countries. * Use its infrastructure strategy to get first choice and a stronger status with carrier (Kwong & Wong, 2011). Threats * Delay in the game in 3G causes a risk to be surpassed by leaders such as Motorola, LG, NEC and others and Asian OEMs who are coming into the market aggressively (Kwong & Wong, 2011). Reference Kwong, K., & Wong, K. (2011). Vertu: Nokia’s luxury mobile phone for the urban rich. Watertown, MA: Harvard Business Publishing. Appendix I SWOT Quadrant Strengths * Is a major player in the mobile market through its majority possession of Symbian shares? * Nokia has cost...
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...vague and there is no official definition for what constitutes the difference between them. The definitions also shift over time since many phones that are considered feature phones today can have capabilities that exceed those of phones that had been promoted as smartphones in the past. Smartphones run mobile operating systems such as Apple's iOS, Google's Android, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, Nokia's Symbian, RIM's BlackBerry OS, and embedded Linux distributions such as Maemo and MeeGo. Such systems can be installed on many different phone models, and typically each device can receive multiple OS software updates over its lifetime. Smartphones run third-party applications using advanced application programming interfaces (APIs),[4] which can allow those applications to have better integration with the phone's OS and hardware than is typical with feature phones. In comparison, feature phones more commonly run on proprietary firmware, with third-party software support through platforms such as Java ME or BREW.[1] Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 Early years 1.2 Symbian 1.3 Palm, Windows, and BlackBerry 1.4 iPhone 1.5 Android 1.6 Others 2 Patent licensing and litigation 3 Screen 4 Application stores 5 Smartphone market share 6 Operating system market shares 6.1...
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...Previously a clear market leader, Finnish communications company Nokia has more recently been experiencing sliding profits and a declining share of the global mobile phone market. While the company has still been achieving strong sales figures in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle-east and Africa, the company has been struggling to compete against industry giants Samsung and Apple in the U.S. smartphone market. In addition to selling mobile phones, Nokia also offers a range of internet services under the brand name Ovi. One of these services was the Ovi App store, launched in 2009. Unfortunately, the Ovi store failed to make a strong impression in the market and while the store is maintained for those customers still using a Symbian operating system, the company more recently announced that they would be transitioning to the use of Windows Phone 7 and the respective App store. While some Ovi services do still exist and others have been merged with different providers, in 2011 Nokia announced that they would ultimately be discontinuing use of the Ovi brand. In 2007, a joint venture was formed between the Finnish company Nokia and German company Siemens. The multinational company Nokia Siemens Networks offers data networking services and telecommunications equipment, and as of 2011 was the fourth largest company in the industry, consistently turning over billion dollar profit figures since its launch. Deficiency: Four major aspects of marketing that cause sales...
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...Exchange and New York Stock Exchange. It is the world's 274th-largest company measured by 2013 revenues according to the Fortune Global 500. Nokia was the world's largest vendor of mobile phones from 1998 to 2012. However, over the past five years its market share declined as a result of the growing use of touch screen smart phones from other vendors—principally the iPhone, by Apple, and devices running on Android, an operating system created by Google — which Nokia chose not to adopt and compete with it instead. As a result, the corporation's share price fell from a high of US$40 in late 2007 to under US$2 in mid-2012. In a bid to recover, Nokia announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft in February 2011, leading to the replacement of Symbian with Microsoft's Windows...
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...Mobile technology is the technology used for cellular communication. Mobile code division multiple access (CDMA) technology has evolved rapidly over the past few years. Since the start of this millennium, a standard mobile device has gone from being no more than a simple two-way pager to being a mobile phone, GPS navigation device, an embedded web browser and instant messaging client, and a handheld game console. Many experts argue that the future of computer technology rests in mobile computing with wireless networking. Mobile computing by way of tablet computers are becoming more popular. Tablets are available on the 3G and 4G networks. Contents [hide] • 1 4G networking • 2 Operating systems • 3 Channel hogging and file sharing • 4 Future of smartphone • 5 External links • 6 References 4G networking[edit source | editbeta] One of the most important features in the 4G mobile networks is the domination of high-speed packet transmissions or burst traffic in the channels. The same codes used in the 2G-3G networks is applied to 4G mobile or wireless networks, the detection of very short bursts will be a serious problem due to their very poor partial correlation properties. Recent study has indicated that traditional multi-layer network architecture based on the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model may not be well suited for 4G mobile network, where transactions of short packets will be the major part of the traffic in the channels. As the packets...
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