Nokia Exec: Today’s Youth Are Confused By Android And Upset From Lack Of Security

• Chris Chavez
• 13 years ago

We told you guys yesterday about Microsoft’s Android bashing campaign where they offered shiny new Windows Phone 7 devices to disgruntled Android users and now Nokia is once again, doing some bad mouthing of their own. According to Niels Munkgaard, Nokia’s Director of Portfolio, Product Marketing and Sales, today’s youth are actually confused by Android devices and upset by its lack of security. In an interview with Pocket-Lint, Munksgaard said,

“What we see is that youth are pretty much fed up with iPhones. Everyone has the iPhone. Also, many are not happy with the complexity of Android and the lack of security.”

Kids are just growing up so fast these days, always moving on to the next best thing… like WP7 (sarcasm). The biggest flaw I found in Munkgaard’s statement is that it’s “the kids” who are actually the power users and more inclined to root their devices, slap the latest ROM and generally hack and tinker around with the software on their devices. Unless, of course, we’re talking about 1st graders in which case I’m still pretty confident if given a choice — they’d still pick Android with its Market featuring thousands of free games, all ripe for the downloading.

Oh, Nokia. You amuse me.

[Via PCWorld]