Yesterday over on Nokiausers, one of our Moderators there spoke out about the ever so increasing amount of Nokia Bashing that is being posted within the forums lately.

This post here on NokiaDNA is to get your feedback on Nokia Bashing, and what you think to it? Is it justified, and has Nokia really deserved all this negative feedback of late?

Here is what Bartmanekul of Nokiausers posted up within the forums yesterday….

While theres no debating Nokia has lost their way recently, but it seems to be it’s become bit of an ‘in’ thing to say.It might seem hippocritical coming from me, whom has been among the most outspoken about Nokias failures recently.

However, I feel I have a good point to everything I say, but theres a lot of people saying ‘Nokias out’ or ‘that they are finished. People are forgetting many things. Firstly, Nokia is the undisputed ruler of the mobile phone world.

They outsell everyone vastly, in pretty much every department. Nokia will not be dying anytime soon. they are a truely massive company, and have hold of a number of patents to basic mobile phone technology which everyone must pay to use, even Apple (pending the lawsuit of course ).

And when’s all said and done, I still have a Nokia as my main phone. So what’s the difference between someone trying to be cool, and a genuinely annoyed Nokia basher?It’s for 2 main reasons. Nokia have been doing badly and making mistakes, and that most people know they could be doing so much better.

People are frustrated when their new £500 phone is slow, and their £250 phone has much better speakers. People get annoyed when the services rolled out are full of bugs, when they are out of beta status.

Everyone gets annoyed when a feature comes along that everyone raved about (xenon flash), and is never seen again on any highend devices.Theres a lot of people that have good reason to bash Nokia, and it’s through Nokias own failings. But there are a lot of people out there to ignore it seems.

My personal reply to the above post, although referring to a completely different market, in this case, the automobile, I do still try and make a point, and that being Brands, and talk about a Brand of automobile that has had its own fair share of Bashing over the years. Skoda.

I’m thinking of buying a Skoda.

Many years ago, the above sentence would of been laughed at from all over Europe.For those who are not familiar with Skoda, they are a car manufacturer.

Full History can be found here, and here.

Now before you ask, “What has this got to do with Nokia?”

Let me explain..Skoda is a brand, a brand that has taken more bashing than pretty much any other Brand out there, ok, on this occasion its an automobile.

If you owned a Skoda many moons ago, many people laughed at you due to the horrible design, but nothing much else, in my experience of actually owning a rear engined Skoda (a long time ago), it was quite ugly, yes, but it was reliable, and comfortable, with a massive boot in the front.

Below is exactly the same model Skoda I had.

Long story short, just like Nokia, investing in more, and more smaller companies, taking advantage of new technologies, and employing only the best people in specialist skill-base professions, Nokia is still going places, be it more in the way of Services, and Handsets, just like Skoda now..Not long ago, Skoda had a major investor, VW, and look at them now.

So what the hell was all that about.? Brands, Brands, and Brands.!

When Nokia bashing is committed by someone solely due to negligence, unknowing, or just plain stupid, criticizing Nokia for things the basher is completely unaware of the depth of what they are referring to, I laugh at them, just like people used to laugh at me when I owned my old Skoda.

Whilst people used to laugh at me, claim my car was ugly, I knew better, the car worked for me, and more. Now while many of you may not agree with me, I have my reasons.

Please let me know your thoughts on Nokia Bashing in the comments below, or if you wish to checkout the Original thread over at Nokiausers, then do so here, and please leave your feedback there too.! Thanks.!

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