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Kervin Pierre · Top Commenter · FIT
What's the big deal? Give the guy a break. He's DIRECTOR OF MARKETING. What do you expect him to say?

He's just being competent and doing his job. Unlike a writer and his editor who allow phrases like "footh in mouth department" in a published article. Even my browser spellchecker catches that one.
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· 3 hours ago

Robin Wauters · Top Commenter · Writer at TechCrunch · 2,757 subscribers
Corrected, thanks for the very kind nudge. And if you think a marketing director's job is spewing nonsense and garbage about competitors, you might need some proper education.
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· 3 hours ago
Lars Pallesen · Top Commenter · DJH
So your take away is that saying something so painfully stupid as this is just "being competent and doing his job" ? Wow ... I'm sure you and Mr. Munksgaard would get along just fine.
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· 2 hours ago
Paul Middlege · Product Manager at ServiceTick
Robin Wauters - it's not nonsense and garbage... I've just purchased a Lumia after getting bored by the iPhone (a symptom due to everyone having one perhaps?) and getting fed up that it hasn't really changed since it's launched (I don't care about Siri, Facetime - they are just cool gimmicks to me that I won't use more than a couple of times)... and though I've only used Android a few times the UI wasn't exactly elegant compared to Mango.

I think I'd be a bit annoyed if I was Microsoft/Nokia... they've made loads of mistakes in the past, but Windows Phone is a great os and the Lumia a great handset... it's also a lot cheaper than the iPhone.

It does make me wonder if the general journalistic opinion of Nokia Lumia would be a lot better if it was an Apple logo on it instead of Windows/Nokia?

Note: I'm not an Windows fanboy - had an iPhone since the first one and use my iPad every day! I personally don't care what badge is on it, as long as it's good!!
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Jeremy Oduber · Universiteit van Amsterdam
If there's one thing today's youth cares about when it comes to phones, it's security.
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· 3 hours ago

Sanjeev Mittal · Manager at Google
Why didn't they realize themselves that Nokia is doomed when everyone had Nokia...
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· 2 hours ago

Tim Trinkle · Manager at Yesterdays Fun Toys & Games
This is so funny because most of the "youth" I come in contact with don't have any idea at all what version of the os they are running and when asked what type of phone they have will just say "Droid" even though the term Droid only apples to Android Mobile phones on Verizon's network. (My favorite is when they don't know what iPhone they have a) there are only 5 types b) it is one of the most recognizable handsets due to the popularity of the device) This being said. Today's youth doesn't even know what they are holding in their hand IS so how can they be sick of it? I know one person with a windows phone and the poor girl thought it was a "Droid". Either I'm surrounded by idiots or Nokia is clueless. A combo of both?
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· 3 hours ago

Colin Richardson
I've not seen 1 windows phone in the wild.. at all. When mode people I ask what phone they have, they either say "Samsung something" or "Blackberry" or "Crappy old phone" (exact words). None of them have ever said "I want something different and fresh, i want a MS phone" lol
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· 2 hours ago
Aditya Sharma · Top Commenter · Resource Interactive
Colin Richardson May be you don't get out much.
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· 2 hours ago
Derek Gallagher · LIT Limerick
Aditya Sharma Since the new Windows phones came on the market I have only met one person who had one. It was a HTC windows 7.0 phone supplied to her by her employer. You know what she asked me! Was it possible if I could install Android on it for her. So in my personal opinion what this Nokia executive said is utter nonsense. Maybe when I actually see a second Windows phone in the wild I might start to take him seriously. LOL
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· about an hour ago

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Belinda Donald · London, United Kingdom
Referring to young people as "the youth" shows just how out of touch these people are!
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· 3 hours ago

Uyai William Ukpe · Top Commenter
so what should we be called?
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· about an hour ago

Chris Acky · Top Commenter · Indianapolis, Indiana
The only reason to get a Nokia is to play Snake on it! Man that rocked.
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· about an hour ago

Habibullah Khan · Top Commenter · Cisco Systems
Notoriety is better then anonymity. Job done.
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· 3 hours ago

Zhang Congqiang · National University of Singapore
speech is silver, silence is golden.
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· 3 hours ago

Jason Kichline · Messiah College
Silence is golden, and duct tape is silver ;)
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· 49 minutes ago

Daniel Richards · School of Hard Knocks, University of Life
I don't see what is wrong with his statement. According to the numbers he is looking at there is a growing niche in the market for something different and they feel that windows phone is what everyone will soon turn to.

Also what is wrong with talking trash about your sompetitors even when your product is not yet the best, I clearly remeber the late Steve Jobs dong that a lot even when apple was not good enough to compete with windows.

My question to the authur of the article, do you think windows phone sales will not shoot up when microsofts project with windows 8 if finally complete?
http://yourlifeslessonsblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/nokia-exec-says-iphone-android-handsets.html
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· 51 minutes ago

Richard Lawrence
For the most part "youths" want what other "youths" have. They buy the Iphone if they can afford it, if not then a droid phone that is reminiscent of the iphone. If neither, then something else that looks like an iphone. The lesson here is: make it look and act like an Iphone and they will want it, otherwise make it highly functional and cheap. Nokia is not very good at imitation, their innovation comes at a price that is too high for the average consumer and they haven't had the best technology value in their product offering in more than 10 years, so I'm not expecting much excitement from their newest products. Prepare to hit the snooze button.
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· about an hour ago

Mateo Fisher · University of Texas School of Law
I'm not sure if he means it this way (and probably not if they are looking to the windows platform), but I think there is definitely room in the market for a much simpler phone. Not everyone wants fancy apps and touchscreens. Some people just want a phone that can call people, store numbers, text, check sports/news/weather every once in a while and take a quick picture. If a company built that phone with an easy to use/clean OS, put it in a cool case, didn't charge too much it could hit. Just add the old snake game and every "real" hipster will want one.
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· 8 minutes ago

Pantano Brown · Top Commenter (signed in using Hotmail)
This is a marketing strategy that might work. Neils Munksgaard is sending a subliminal message to all the youths of America to make them think that the new Nokia phones are a good alternative to the phones they are using. Every strategy is needed to conquer this market which is fill with cell phone offers and new partnerships. http://tiny.cc/6yjj4
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· 2 hours ago

Collin James Guy · Top Commenter · Technology Instructor and Lab Administrator at The U.S. Army
"Nokia's marketing research uncovered this fascinating trend in today's youth that they call 'being a hipster.' By Q3 2012 we'll have revived over 6 different handsets from pre-2005 in order to cater to this market."
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· 7 minutes ago

John Scott · Top Commenter · Kishwaukee College
What else can they say? They have taken a huge leap of faith with Microsoft on Windows phones.
If it fails Nokia will be done, but Microsoft can survive. I would say that's incentive enough to put out this kind of marketing strategy.
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· 2 hours ago

Gopakumar Suryan · University of Sheffield
Nokia is desperately in need of some "YOUTH" in its genes if it plans to compete with the Iphone n andorid phones...
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· 3 hours ago

Jenendra Jain · Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
oh believe me it now has an alien gene with it to compete with these youth attracting phones... Lumia is just the beginning...
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· 3 hours ago

Nithin Jawali · Top Commenter · Hawaii Pacific
Funny, I facepalmed exactly like the image when I read the headline.
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· 2 hours ago

Rakesh Narang · Blogger at Wizard Journal
It just ordered iPod Touch 4G for apps yesterday... iOS is not dead!
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· 3 hours ago

Doug Zbikowski · Content Developer at TOAST.net
One of those "I'll say it and believe it's true..." moments.
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Thomas McGuire · Top Commenter
RIM are just happy they'll not be made fun of today. Thanks Nokia.
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· 2 hours ago

David Abraham · Top Commenter · Works at DFMedia Studios
He's trying to create reality. What else can they do? Not much.
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· 2 hours ago

Sriram Srinivasan · Top Commenter · National Institute of Technology, Trichy
Youth want to use windows phone and pigs fly.
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· 2 hours ago

Lars Pallesen · Top Commenter · DJH
So, let me get this straight, Mr.Nokia marketing genius: You're saying that "everyone has the iPhone" and THAT serves to prove that "youth are pretty much fed up with iPhones" ? Well, I can see why you don't work in Nokia marketing analysis, that's for sure.
But you're right about one thing; if a youngster wants a smartphone that nobody else has, a Nokia smartphone is definitely a safer bet than an iPhone *LOL*
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· 2 hours ago

Aditya Sharma · Top Commenter · Resource Interactive
You seem to be quite the expert on the "youth". you did use "*LOL*"

/facepalm
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Jon Adolfsson · Top Commenter
Young people don't spend one second worrying about security. They're busy getting that iPhone 4S.
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· 3 hours ago

Tim Trinkle · Manager at Yesterdays Fun Toys & Games
Its almost as if you are saying that iOS has a security problem. But that can't be right as we have yet to hear of an iOS security breach. By this I mean while android phones are riddled with issues (not saying my iPhone is perfect, I know it has flaws) I know my info isn't leaving the sandbox!
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· 2 hours ago
Aaron Brooks · University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Tim Trinkle lmao its crazy how many unimformed people there are on here.....not even 6% of android phones have been touched by security breaches. riddled was a poor choice of words and 2 lmao do i have to post links showing that apple platforms as a whole are the easiest to obtain information from....and yet to hear of a security breack??? http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/07/apple-promises-to-fix-iphone-security-problems-337780498/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/07/iphone-security-issues-apple-update_n_892203.html

this is why real techies HATE apple. because of people like u who talk like you kno but u know nothing.

and Android does hold the top spot in market share sooooooooooooo im just sayin. theyre doin somethin right
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· 2 hours ago
Jason Kichline · Messiah College
They are doing something right, like giving phones away for free, for instance.

Something to keep in mind is that most Android devices are not updated to the latest version of the software which means security issues can persist for the life of the phone. Most users upgrade their iOS version to get the latest features. Of course there are always people out there who know nothing about updating and are happy to leave the original version.

Regarding that link you posted, there was never any breach and Apple fixed that within a few weeks of the issue happening. The only thing it was used for was installing jailbreaks over the wire as far as I know.
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· 13 minutes ago

Adam Kubalica
This is pathetic, in US Nokia wasn't well known, but in Europe it was a ROCKSTAR before the iPhone, just 5 years ago they rocked mobile, and now? http://baretech.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/how-the-flintstones-looked-at-the-mobile-industry/
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· about an hour ago

Arash Saidi · Lund
Made me smile , thanks Niels Munksgaard, Director of Portfolio, Product Marketing & Sales at Nokia Entertainment :))