S60 Open to new features

There are two kinds of people: those who divide people into two groups (or 3), and those who don't :)

I have to disagree on the 'highest 5% income segment', it's not even close. Many of my friends have bought Nokia N70 and they are certainly not in the 5%. The point is that they could have bought a "feature phone" for the same money, but chose S60 because of some particular reason (big screen, nice UI, etc.)

Sorry I didn't have anything meaningful to say about your actual topic..

Let's make one calculation. "Nokia alone has cumulatively shipped 50 million S60 enabled devices by end of Feb 2006". Total S60 number is higher than that, but 50 million out of 6.6 billion people makes less than 0.75%. As you said, not only the richest have bought S60 device but I would say they all are wealthy. I widened the group more than 5 times, when I said 5%, and that means 330 million people globally. I'm pretty sure that your friend belongs this privileged group of 330 million.

Out of the groups I think I belong to the middle one; "don't care" but why have you narrowed down the issue to only the green debate. Corporate Ethics and giving back to the community, this is a major issue I feel.

My respect for BG and WB have grown tremendously with their philanthropic guestures; my buying decision would also be influenced if companies are perceived to be contributing to major humanitarian issues in the world. Hunger, Disease, Poverty, Conflict. What can Nokia do to help with these issues?

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I totally agree. If company wants to make a difference it has to give back to community. I also would like to see that there is a focus when doing it. One company can do one thing right and others will take care of other projects. Distributing small pieces everywhere is a good strategy in when doing good.

I don't want to name here (yet) what should be selected as “doing good” focus area for us. But when there is a focus and it's communicated clearly people undestand immediately the responsibility aspect and it also becomes valuable sales argument.

The Body Shop is forerunner in these things. Actually they don’t do that much direct donation of money. It’s more about fair trade with suppliers and using natural incredients sourced directly from producers. This is easier to do in some business, in technology area supporting selected development by donation sounds more feasible. Anyway responsibility is wide topic and when you claim to do things well, you also have to do things well throughout the company. If this is not coming from the heart and is only a new marketing strategy, it is better to forget the whole thing.

Hello Jouni. Completely agree with you. For me, giving back to the community also means that the people developing and manufacturing a product are treated fairly. A lot of negative stories are heard and seen today of how manufacturing of goods is done on the back of people, especially in countries such as China. When I look at Nokia/S60 products, "Made in China" is already printed on lots of parts. Making sure the workers (and the environment) are treated fairly does not only help them, it helps us all and benefits of such behaviour would set in far quicker then distributing wealth later on.
Martin