In the article, "Nokia Get Its Manos," in the New York Times, Ashlee Vance discusses how the cell phone company Nokia is trying to expand. Mike Manos, a very popular guy in data operations, used to work for Microsoft handling a lot of their online services like xbox live, hosted email and Azure business software platform. He left Microsoft and moved to Digital Realty Trust, and from there he moved to Nokia. For Nokia, he is going to be the vice president in charge of service operations. Nokia's goal is to have their Ovi software store to have the same cachet as the Apple's App Store.
Most people use their cell phones today for everything. Not just communicating, they use it for email, networking, navigation, music, and anything else you can do online. You can do practically anything on a cell phone. Some people use it as a computer. These phone capabilities have been around for a while, but the phone that made it most popular was the iPhone. The iPhone came out and everyone wanted it. You could do anything with the iPhone, they have an App for anything. Because the iPhone was only available through at&t, many people switched to that company just for the phone.
Nokia is now trying to step it up and be like at&t. Most verizon phones you can do the same things as the iPhone and some of the tmobile ones too. Of all of the phones to be sold at any phone provider, Nokia isn't the first one to be bought. Nokia is known for their basic phones. To expand their customers and to be more adaptable to society, they are expanding their software store. They are trying to have their phones become more like the iPhone where you can get applications and use them for anything. Not many people have phones that can't access the internet or check their email or get them directions to somewhere. Nokia is realizing that and realizing that they need to expand and improve their services. They feel that hiring Mike Manos, data software genius will do just that and increase their accessibility.
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I wonder how hiring Mike Manos will change Nokia’s business and technology? Will their products become as reliable and as trusted as Apple products? Are they going to produce products similar to Apples? Hiring someone new to change up the business and expand the company is a good idea. With Nokia welcoming new ideas and new workers, its business will be able to grow and become more profitable. I do not own any Nokia products but I own many Apple products and I would like to see the competition that Nokia brings into the industry.
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