Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Ericsson Admits Defeat
Perhaps saturating the market with one completely unusable phone after another is bad for business.
Ericsson of SonyEricsson infamy has closed its Bluetooth Division. I have a little bit on sinister glee to see harm come to one of the companies responsible for making products that could have been so cool had they drifted justly slightly to this side of absolute suck. The truth is, I think the Bluetooth functionality of their phones was the only thing that did work. It was the user interface design and implementation as well as the reception and industrial design that failed so miserably.
Ericsson of SonyEricsson infamy has closed its Bluetooth Division. I have a little bit on sinister glee to see harm come to one of the companies responsible for making products that could have been so cool had they drifted justly slightly to this side of absolute suck. The truth is, I think the Bluetooth functionality of their phones was the only thing that did work. It was the user interface design and implementation as well as the reception and industrial design that failed so miserably.
