Hacker News Reader

Apparently, it's not living up to the expectations of the stock market. The stock is down 13%. Not sure what people were hoping for.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ANOK

View on HN

They've announced a product, but no pricing or availability. People will immediately stop buying the current generation, but don't have the next generation to purchase - and there is no idea when they will be able to. Nokia just put the brakes on sales, and haven't indicated when they'll let up on them.

But the brakes have been on sales for a while, as we have known that the latest windows phone software won't work on the existing Lumia phones.

Well, let's just say then that they pushed a bit harder. The difference now, is previously I could have purchased a phone, and then in some indeterminate period of time in the future, upgraded to a new phone, and brought all my applications (and, much, much more importantly for most people - my familiarity with the platform) along with me. WP8 is pretty similar to WP7 in terms of GUI.

But now - I know what that new phone is going to look like - so buying todays phone is like buying the previous generation. Also - it was _demoed_ - so it feels like it's going to be released any day now...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com