The shocking fall of a company that dominated the global smartphone market

As many of you may know, Nokia was a company so famous that it overtook Samsung as the number one mobile phone company in the world. It is also famous for its durability, and there are people who still use Nokia Tune as ringtones.

Of course, their main focus is GSM, so in Korea, where the communication network was CDMA, they barely released it, so there are many people who didn’t know about it.

Even Nokia has concerns.

It was the iPhone. With the advent of the iPhone, which captured the concepts of the current generation of smartphones, the introduction of 3G support and the App Store, the iPhone 3G in which it was released in more countries, and the iPhone 3Gs with dramatically improved performance, Nokia gradually faced a crisis in its market share. (During this time, Samsung released the famous Omnia series and received all the criticism)

In fact, there were Nokia’s own operating systems such as Symbian and MeeGo, but Symbian performed well, but MeeGo, which was released as a successor, did not receive a very good response.

Meanwhile, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, HTC, etc. began installing Android on their smartphones instead of Windows Mobile, which was generally too poor to compete with the iPhone, thereby creating a level that could compete with the iPhone.

Meanwhile, Nokia was late in installing a general-purpose operating system while clinging to Meego. If Nokia had installed Android late like other companies, it wouldn’t have failed like it is now.

They suddenly declared that they were making ‘only’ Windows Phone and put on a self-destructive show.

Of course, it’s not that other manufacturers didn’t release Windows Phone, but the manufacturers were hit hard by the discontinuation of Windows Mobile after-sales support and the inability to upgrade Windows Phone (*There is a story that the HD2 was judged unupgradable because it only had a lot of buttons even though the specs were great lol). Is it possible to leave Android alone and focus on Windows Phone?

There were twists and turns, but in the end, the mobile phone business was sold to Microsoft and the company went bankrupt, and now Nokia (of course, since it does not have a mobile division) is leaving only the OEM to China, and its status has plummeted.

For reference, the person who pushed to make only Windows Phone was from Microsoft, and when the mobile phone business sold out, he returned to Microsoft and was treated as a Trojan horse.

Personally, I think they failed more than LG.