“Nokia has claimed that the youth of today are fed up with the iPhone and baffled by Android,” Stuart Miles reports for Pocket-lint.
“In an exclusive interview with Pocket-lint, Niels Munksgaard, director of Portfolio, Product Marketing & Sales at Nokia Entertainment Global explained all,” Miles reports. “‘What we see is that youth are pretty much fed up with iPhones. Everyone has the iPhone,’ he said. ‘Also, many are not happy with the complexity of Android and the lack of security. So we do increasing see that the youth that wants to be on the cutting edge and try something new are turning to the Windows phone platform.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Please see the article that just preceded this one: Windows Phone exploit crashes devices, disables messaging. The youth of today must enjoy repetitive rebooting and, as we all know, they have no use for messaging.
Miles reports, “Munksgaard agrees though, that even then it is not so easy to impress those walking into a shop looking to sign a new contract… It is music, along with mapping and the design of the latest Nokia smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 800, that he feels helps Nokia stand out from the crowd.”
MacDailyNews Take: We wouldn’t want Munksgaard’s job for all the pink slips in Espoo.
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Title should read “Nokia claims today’s youth fed up with iPhone, baffled by android, still don’t know who the f*** Nokia is”
Nokia is desperate to claim anything outrageous to suit their purposes and sell a craptastic phone however rooted in FUD, disingenuousness and outright fantasy.
What does “fed up” mean? How are they “fed up”? Why are they “fed up”?
Any answers? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
Ah yes, everyone has one so nobody wants one…this guy is a genius
Ah yes, the Yogi Berra gambit:
“Nobody ever goes there – it’s too crowded!”
“You can observe a lot just by watching.” – Yogi
“Always go to your friends’ funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.” – Yogi
“I’ve got to get me some of those picnic baskets!” – yogi bear
“We made too many wrong mistakes” – Nokia
When you come to a fork in the road, take it!
That must be why Apple is having a hard time keeping up with demand…
Well, somebody ought to notify the “today’s youth”, since they clearly haven’t received this memo yet…
In all fairness, the guy is in charge of marketing. His job is to convince his audience that they don’t want their competitors. When there isn’t much substance to use to convince them, what else is left but to send out these types of proclamations, in hope that someone might actually buy it.
Before my iPhone I had a Nokia N95 .Great hardware but really crappy software .I actually gave away 2 of them .Even simple things were enormously complex .I have to admit I am not youthful but my time is worth too much to waste hours trying to do routine things on the phone!!!
And Nokia’s phone had better user interfaces than most other phones. It just goes to show how disruptive the iPhone was. My first phone was a Nokia. My second was a Samsung that had a user interface so horrible that it made me miss the old Nokia.
Everybody has an iPhone so nobody wants it anymore?
All my friends have Ferraris. I’m fed up. We’re all going out and buying a Kia this weekend. I’d buy Jeep, but they’re just baffling.
Actually I think you mean Ford for the baffling one. They just had a major major update passed out to their customers because no one could figure out their “Sync” system, written by none other than Microsoft. Me, I won’t fit in a Ford with the engine running.
Chrysler, on the other hand, has received outstanding reviews for their customer-facing software. And I can vouch for that.
fit = sit. I could “fit” in one easily. 🙂
Okay, I was wondering about the Ford’s expands-when-running engine.
Since apparently ANYONE can report anything with impunity I will try my hand at reporting….
“Today the inhabitants of the planet Tessgard announced they will no longer tolerate bulls$&t from any lifeforms in the galaxy. A list has been prepared of those individuals slated for “removal”. It is rumored that the list includes many Wall Street and Tech analysts as well as many high tech management types.
A Tessgard enforcer who spoke ananomously as he was not authorized to speak on the matter said ” we are tired of the Balmerization of the information flow that infects the knowledge base a of all planets near earth and pick up this drivel through the airwaves”
It is rumored, from a source that has been correct before, that a round up is to begin within a few weeks and that a planet is being prepared for the offenders so that they can all be housed together and lie to no one but themselves.
Alcancun for the AP
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with this report. Stuart Miles (of Pocket Lint) essentially sat down for an interview with this guy (Nokia’s PR chief) and we got to hear what Nokia PR guy has to say. Pocket Lint is a UK-based site that covers mobile gadgets. Not a major news outlet (NY Times, Forbes, WSJ, etc). Let’s not give this more importance than it really has.
By the way, your article was quite funny.
My daughter Tess would be so excited that a planet has been named after her!
And she is very intolerant of bull$&t as well… 🙂
Pretty much like Yogi Berra replied when asked why he no longer went to “Ruggeri’s,” a St. Louis restaurant: “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
As funny as Yogi-isms are, with context it makes sense. He was saying, nobody, meaning ballplayers, go there anymore, because it’s too crowded with non-ballplayers.
Most Yogi-isms make sense if you understand what he meant. It’s the way he said them that’s funny.
——RM
I met him at a museum in Montclair, NJ around 1999. Nice old guy. I think he played baseball or something.
The catcher is the only player in foul territory.
There is always this assumption that the youth generally crave individualism and the means to express it. This is, for the most part, not true. Vast majority of youth don’t want to stand out; they want to conform. When I was growing up, everyone was wearing jeans, so I kept begging my mom to buy me a pair. When I was a young teen, everyone was wearing bell bottoms, and so did I. In my late teens, everyone was getting Walkmen, so I saved up and bought me one (I didn’t particularly want or need one).
Young generation is exceedingly conformist. If an influential group has something, everyone else will covet the same thing.
iPhone competitors have practically no chance in this demographic group.
Every Youth I know is dying for an iPhone. However most of the parents I know don’t want their spawn breaking an iPhone so they end up saddling them with a feature phone or a really old iPhone.
Argh Nokia.
Last one I had defeated me with its ghastly menus, the hideosity of triple-clicking to make a single text letter, and the sheer idiocy of its spellchecker.
Of course, the Lumia 800 may be vastly improved, but I doubt it’s a patch on my luurvly iPhone.
No. The truth is this
We were fed up with Nokia, hated windows phones, laughed at android and love iPhones.
Nokia – crashes all the time
Windows mobile – needs reformatting. Just like vista
Android – why bother
iPhone – stable operating system and does everything I LEGALLY want to do on a phone.
The youth of today are fed up with the iPhone and baffled by Android.
Meanwhile, Nokia’s market share has plummeted so fast that the southbound trend line actually broke the sound barrier in Q3 of 2010. You may as well be doing PR for skinheads, Niels.
The youth is so fed up with iPhone, they want the Kin back.
That’s hilarious. I remember the emo Abercrombe multi-million dollar launch, followed by Microsoft killing it less than 2 months later. Good times.
http://themacadvocate.com/2010/06/30/someone-notify-next-of-kin-the-social-is-dead/
Oh lord won’t you buy me a Windows Phone 7.
My friends all drive iPhones, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends.
So oh lord won’t you buy me a Windows Phone 7
With apologies to Janis Joplin.
Talk about delusional.
Apple invented and won the revolution in 2007 with the first iPhone. Cutting edge is defined by Apple. If Apple hadn’t created the iPhone we’d still be using flip-phones and providers would have unlimited data plans!!!
I don’t pay the $15 a month with my flip-phone.
But you know what the youth of today love? WINDOWS
Nokia also believes that today’s youth are fed up with autos, and that some are going back to the horse and buggy.
Nokia – Smokia.
Sounds like Skunksgaard was brought from Microsoft to Nokia with Elop, as his talking points memo sounds like it was written by Microsoft.
I don’t need Nokia or that foo-foo Apple Mac Iphoney crap. My Motorola StarTac kicks butt I tell ya’!
Amazed at how clueless Nokia really is. No wonder they keep losing market share. Lost all touch with reality. I think he’s been talking to his buddy Steve Ballmer who’s also out of touch with reality. No wonder they both got together to do there crappy phones.
I agree that teens are fickle and want to be “unique” and will quickly drop something if they perceive it is becoming too common.
That said, the Lumia phones look pretty much like every other touch screen phone except that they come in pink and baby blue. That, and WinPho7 Metro, for better or worse.
Okay, are these guys going to some kind of seminar or training school of Baghdad Bob!
‘What we see is that youth are pretty much fed up with iPhones. Everyone has the iPhone,’
Yes, they’re so fed up that everyone keeps buying them.
When your company is in an obviously losing position, just stand out there and blatantly lie.
You have little to lose that you haven’t already lost.