[T-zex]

Nokia designers should be proud of themselves for setting a colorful plastic case trend for the smart phone market and even influencing the iPhone.

[Steko]

Apple's following the exact same playbook they wrote with the imac and ipod where they focussed heavily on the primary form factor for several years and then threw open the gates to colors.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3017050/untold-stories-inside-ap...

[threeseed]

Nokia's designer and product managers have nothing to be proud of in its history.

They let companies like Apple, Samsung etc come in and dominate what was their industry to own.

[drill_sarge]

I have a Nokia 3210 as backup phone which still works flawless today. Or an E-7, still working. Most of the other phones I had went defunct at some point or the non-replaceable battery went dead and new phone was cheaper than getting it replaced and so on. Thats something to be proud of. Ok, maybe not for the product managers ;)

[T-zex]

I agree about the product managers, but I don't think that designers are to blame for the failures in the smart phone market.