Yes they did. I miss them. But thats creative destruction.
Nokia tried to do everything and ended up doing nothing. They could not compete with the joint assault by iPhone and Android.
Nokia tried to do everything and ended up doing nothing. They could not compete with the joint assault by iPhone and Android.
Nokia never understood the less-is-more thing that Apple are so good at. Hundreds of phones and an overcomplicated OS wuth political and technical problems - Symbian - were the result, not the cause, of a company that lacked focus and direction.
The last version, the one on the Lumias, was actually quite OK on a phone from all I've heard -- and living in Finland, I knew more than a few people who used those back in the day.
That's preciely why Windows 8 sucked so much on the desktop; it was intended to have as much as possible of the look-and-feel of Windows Phone. Windows 8 sucked on computers; apparently not so much on phones.