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Light 'em if you got 'em, people; flame away. Guys and gals with pitchforks should stay to the sides. |
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For the semantic loving idiots, he's North American but he's Canadian. Any other lessons are needed today? |
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I suspect that in a year when nokia is competitive again with symbian4, meego and improved services everybody will say it was the new guy, while in fact it was good ol' OPK :).
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As stated earlier, even if this guy starts making decisions diametrically opposite to OPK's past directives on day one, most won't see day to day change in operations for 1.5 to 2 years anyway. |
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All we need now is a picture of this dude wearing Superman's cape while eating an apple and stocks will soar. :D |
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This canadian seems to be qualified. |
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I am really disappointed with the non nokia CEO. My concerns are?
1. This guy has been jumping jobs between varios MNC. What it says is that he is in it for the money and solely money. We need people who are passionate about nokia. Look at texrat.. he is passionate and he works for the good of nokia.... no matter he is paid or not. Similarly there are many good guys in nokia who are extremely passionate about nokia and have a finnish background. For example.. Ansi, Ari, Peter & Qgil come to mind. 2. Also one of the most important factos i like about nokia is thier honesty and modesty. I believe this has something to with thier finnish background. Why get this north american ceo who i believe wont have these traits. I have yet to see any north american company have the same values of modesty and honesty similar to nokia. 3. I read somewhere this guy had a major part to play in the concept of microsoft kin. If that is anyway true... i am gutted. Even the hamster in the lab knew that the kin was going to bomb.... but still microsoft went through with it. I do understand the importance of having him for increasing the market share in the US... for that he could have been made President of the NA arm of nokia or may be even better head of buisiness.... but the ceo has to be finnish. |
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This dude could be ****ing Superman and it wouldn't satisfy anybody simply because he's not Finnish.
The immediate effects of this announcement aren't even going to be seen for the most part. Having a North American based executive could assist in the abysmal (read: total lack of) advertising in the North American markets - the very same places that double digit share has been lost. Regardless, the whole xenophobia that's going on in this thread reeks of ignorance and intolerance. And it's not like Nokia was doing that damn great (read: view the stock price) to begin with despite putting up world class sales numbers - they are still capable of doing better. This person might not bring a good thing. This person might be Jorma Ollila's puppet; which... would not be a bad thing. Or this person might do well. And all shades of success and failure in-between. He's not even left Microsoft yet (Sept. 20th) folks. |
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As for the biggest difference between Americans and Canadians is that he's used to a socialized government with public run health care and very cold winters, and hockey loving people, just like Finland. |
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I've been living in Canada, and they have a strange love and hate relationship between US. But one thing is sure, they definitely are not Americans, if you ask them. About the relationship between Nokia and Microsoft, I think this is going to change (mostly) nothing. Elop works for Nokia now. |
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If you want to see/hear how he talks about tech topics, here's a not too old video I found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHKMUHvb2iE
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Facts are that Nokia has been doing badly since OPK became CEO and you could say that it was Ollila who left the OS mess for Kallasvuo and Kallasvuo did the right thing by buying Symbian and turning it to open source. Plus of course lifting Maemo/MeeGo to smartphones and buying trolltech.... and i would agree in many cases.
Still there's things like sticking in a old hw platform for way too long like Anssi Vanjoki admitted year after N97 release, software and hardware delays and putting too much effort to services. Services are all right and good, but you need some eye catching hw and get your word out. With some hit high ends they could have gotten more organic growth for the services rather than the tries to lift the service time after time with some mid tier hardware with no real following and not enough of early adopters to get the thing going. So i welcome this guy as he just might be the the right guy to put the software right and make them appear in time. My favorit would have been Vanjoki isnide Nokia, but maybe it's for the better to get outsider. |
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Okay, many new possibilities...
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There's a board of directors btw.. and OPK is one of them.. so yeah.. |
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Does he care about the N900? If not, he can be CEO of green monkeys in Atlantis for all I care...
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As a CEO, I would want him to utilize those resources on the n9 instead of pleasing a few geek fanboys on a dead product. But yeah, what Nokia did to the n900 really sucks! The N9 has to really WOW to receive any forgiveness. A 100 dollar trade-in for the n9 against the n900 would not hurt either... |
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Can anyone send email to new CEO to visit this web site, so he will know what bad service is being provided by Nokia so far for N900 users....
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LOL! I knew this would happen, nokia is qucikly falling behind. The guys an idiot, >_> cant say I feel sorry...
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So before making more of these statements about what his ideas are, remember: CITATION NEEDED! http://xkcd.com/285 |
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What do you mean, "you people?" :P
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Elop hasn't even begun his job at Nokia, and already he's been blamed on not supporting N900... :D
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Intel surely wants to know ASAP what is now Nokia's future with Meego.
The worst case scenario would be Windows7 only. The second worst Android+Windows7. The best, only Meego+Qt. |
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As for Android, do any of you really think that Nokia will reduce itself to competing with non-name Chinese mass-market OEMs with an OS that still has miniscule marketshare in Nokia's traditionally strongest markets (ie non-USA)? Unlikely - nevermind the fact that they will be hostages to Google's whims at that point. We will have to wait and see. I would predict reorganisations and changes in middle-management to reflect the new CEOs ideas... You could think of this the way lions treat a pride they just took over. Kill the cubs from the prior adult male and mate with all the lionesses to put their own DNA in the pride. I think that parallels what usually happens with CEO changes in many corporations rather nicely :p |
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Small spark of hope that if this here new bloke decides to push for the North American market again there may be a posible opening for Texrat again.
Other than that, It won't affect us for a while - and by then meego will be an Intel project anyway. :p |
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Wow, my mouth is ajar. As much I've heard Nokia disliking how much Americans are "arrogant" and "too aggressive", this just shocks me to no end. An American, the CEO of the precious Finnish conglomerate is just amazing!! Was Nokia desperate in hiring an American....from Microsoft?? I hope this turns things around and makes Nokia the giant they should be.
I digress... He's Canadian. But he's not Finnish, he's North American. Still shocking... |
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P.s. the world's largest mobile device manufacturer would probably already qualify as a "giant" I would speculate :) P.p.s. his LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stephen-elop/1/3a0/b31 |
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You can count on a lot more Nokia deals with Microsoft. Not good news in my book.
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I would rather the CEO from Vodafone resigned
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