It’s a shame we have to lose a good company like Nokia in this experiment in greed and stupidity.

If they really wanted to ensure the future of the company and were going to drop their own operating system then they would at the very least adopt Android as well as WP7, thus this looks more and more like a coup form MS to overthrow Nokia and turn them into Microsoft’s puppet so that MS can survive the coming OS change via the mobile space.

I doubt it will work though–they are both acting far too slowly and Android is going much too fast.

If they really wanted to ensure the future of the company and were going to drop their own operating system then they would at the very least adopt Android as well as WP7, thus this looks more and more like a coup form MS to overthrow Nokia and turn them into Microsoft’s puppet so that MS can survive the coming OS change via the mobile space.

I doubt it will work though–they are both acting far too slowly and Android is going much too fast.

My sympathy goes to them.

It was a good decision to name as CEO somebody with a good software expertise. It was a WRONG decision to choose somebody from North America who considers the same construction approach for gothic cathedrals as for skyscrapers. Somebody who comes directly brain-washed by Microsoft’s business tactics. Somebody who does not understand too many things about the european culture in general and about the scandinavian cultures in particular. The marketshare Nokia currently has was there just because people supported them and not because they deserved it. They were hoping and waiting and waiting and…. waiting. Nokia didn’t deliver but having a tight partnership was not the solution at all. Reentering the US market while disconsidering their previous promises to the end users / developers / workers has the price of becoming soon extinct in Europe. Please, take somebody away Stephen from the burning platform and call the firefighters and the ambulance as Nokia is in the town center and not in the Pacific ocean. They even have a recovery plan to follow and a community to (in)directly support them. Come on Nokia, invest those billions of euros in BETTER maintaining and expending your current assets and DO NOT blindly follow the stratagem written by the american “analysts”. The eye-candy lovers should be satisfied with a good firmware update which should be already in your pipeline. The number of sold smartphones just passed the number of PCs. It means that the relevancy of Wintel monopoly is decreasing and this is your time: MOBILE COMPUTING. Where are your promises and hopes? Why do you throw away all those billions when they came to fruition and jeopardize all your communities? Take that butcher away, send him to the psychologist to better understand that the platform fired up just today and avoid suiciding yourself.

It was a good decision to name as CEO somebody with a good software expertise. It was a WRONG decision to choose somebody from North America who considers the same construction approach for gothic cathedrals as for skyscrapers. Somebody who comes directly brain-washed by Microsoft’s business tactics. Somebody who does not understand too many things about the european culture in general and about the scandinavian cultures in particular. The marketshare Nokia currently has was there just because people supported them and not because they deserved it. They were hoping and waiting and waiting and…. waiting. Nokia didn’t deliver but having a tight partnership was not the solution at all. Reentering the US market while disconsidering their previous promises to the end users / developers / workers has the price of becoming soon extinct in Europe. Please, take somebody away Stephen from the burning platform and call the firefighters and the ambulance as Nokia is in the town center and not in the Pacific ocean. They even have a recovery plan to follow and a community to (in)directly support them. Come on Nokia, invest those billions of euros in BETTER maintaining and expending your current assets and DO NOT blindly follow the stratagem written by the american “analysts”. The eye-candy lovers should be satisfied with a good firmware update which should be already in your pipeline. The number of sold smartphones just passed the number of PCs. It means that the relevancy of Wintel monopoly is decreasing and this is your time: MOBILE COMPUTING. Where are your promises and hopes? Why do you throw away all those billions when they came to fruition and jeopardize all your communities? Take that butcher away, send him to the psychologist to better understand that the platform fired up just today and avoid suiciding yourself.

/s