DISQUS

burning the bacon with barrett: Google vs. Nokia – the next cold war?

  • Stefan Constantinescu · 2 years ago
    Nokia doesn't want to build social networks ...
  • phryl · 2 years ago
    That's a point of view that may be shared by others.... but then what do you call their MOSH site? http://mosh.nokia.com/

    Also check out this review on their social networking site:
    http://crunchgear.com/2007/10/04/nokia-mosh-wha...

    Your Feedback / input / perspective is welcome!
  • Stefan Constantinescu · 2 years ago
    Yea about MOSH, that is a weird one, wasn't thinking about that at the time. Nokia's Ovi strategy, if you went to the Go Play event in London, was more about connecting users with networks they already use. There was talk of bringing Digg, Flickr, Youtube, Dopplr support all on your handset. Nokia knows that they shouldn't try and cram their services down people throats, but instead bring the services people are already using on their mobile phone.

    MOSH is popular in India and Russia where PC penetration and home fixed line broadband is very low. It is very much intended to be a community strictly for mobile.

    http://blogs.s60.com/voiceofs60/2007/10/podcast...

    Nokia's primary business is still hardware, Google's is still very much software. It is going to be fun watching both enter each others space. Cold War is blowing it up. On the other hand, now that Nokia does own Navteq and will no doubt build an ad network on top of that ... that is where we could start a real debate.
  • phryl · 2 years ago
    Stefan - thanks for the great insight and additional perspective! I look forward to continuing the conversation in the coming months.
  • personallo · 1 year ago
    hey :-)
    its very reasonable article.
    Nice post.
    realy gj

    thank you ;)
  • Sachendra Yadav · 1 year ago
    With Android and Chrome, the cold war would be between Google and Microsoft. Nokia will be reduced to a side show in the long run