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Couple of quick hits.
Feb. 11th, 2011 10:38 amThe post I linked to yesterday on how A-Level choices strongly affect your later education has some fascinating discussion on it. You could also do worse than adding ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
philmophlegm.
Nokia and Microsoft have announced a tie-up on smartphones. Which baffles me completely. So far as I can see, MS totally control the interface for their phones. Which means that Nokia can't differentiate itself except on the hardware (i.e. a nicer camera). Much though I went off the interface for Symbian later on, it did seem to be the thing that Nokia smartphone fans kept harking back to. I just can't see what Nokia gain from turning themselves from providers of the complete smartphone into hardware manufacturers - all the reviews of MS smartphones I've seen so far indicate that who makes them doesn't actually affect them very much at all. Someone care to enlighten me?
philmophlegm.Nokia and Microsoft have announced a tie-up on smartphones. Which baffles me completely. So far as I can see, MS totally control the interface for their phones. Which means that Nokia can't differentiate itself except on the hardware (i.e. a nicer camera). Much though I went off the interface for Symbian later on, it did seem to be the thing that Nokia smartphone fans kept harking back to. I just can't see what Nokia gain from turning themselves from providers of the complete smartphone into hardware manufacturers - all the reviews of MS smartphones I've seen so far indicate that who makes them doesn't actually affect them very much at all. Someone care to enlighten me?
