Nokia
includes Nokia Lumia, Nokia Navigator, Nokia Eseries, Nokia HERE Maps, Nokia Here, Nokia Nseries, Nokia Windows Phones
3 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Benedict Evans · said 68 times in 27 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Benedict Evans (44), Michael Copeland (13), Steven Sinofsky (3), W. Brian Arthur (1), Saswat Panigrahi (1), Salim Ismail (1), Marc Andreessen (1), John Hennessy (1)
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2025 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2024 2 mentions in 1 episode
2023 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2019 56 mentions in 17 episodes 3 per episode
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- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2017 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about Nokia, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Evans: Apple outsold Microsoft-Nokia's total handset volume in Q4 2014
“Apple sold more phones than Nokia. I mean, the Nokia, you know, this is still Microsoft, because Nokia did, Nokia Microsoft did ten million numis and forty million feature phones. Right. Apple did seventy-five million smartphones.”
Jan 2, 2019
Evans: None of the original cellular pioneers remain in the handset business
“If you think back again, 15 years ago, none of the companies that kind of created cellular are in the handset business anymore. Like, none of them. They're all out of it. Like, Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens, you know, Motorola. All of those companies are out of the…”
May 25, 2023 positive
Ismail: Tech winners like Apple and Google succeeded by becoming platforms
“Yahoo, BlackBerry, Nokia all failed to become platforms, right? Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon all successfully became platforms, and that business model basically carries you through because now you wire yourself into the infrastructure.”