You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

I would pull an Elop just to steal his 'worst CEO of any large company ever' title.

1. I would write a memo in which I take a massive **** on everything Nokia has ever done and deem all our products not worth buying.
2. I would of course leak the memo to the public.
3. Next I would introduce a really awesome in-house developed phone that receives great reviews and then say that it will not be supported no matter what. I'm not so sure why I'm doing this, but whatever..
4. I would rest Nokia's smartphone future on some obscure marginal OS like RIM's QNX or MS WP7 and not release any phones with it for at least one year.
5. Meanwhile, I would fire everyone who ever had something to do with in-house software developing just so there's no going back no matter what.
6. That's about it.

I also have a plan B, but I'll leave that for later..

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

first provide a $6M signing bonus. Without that i would not speak.

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

You're cheap.

I wouldn't open my mouth for less than 300 mill.

I mean really, just look at what Elop has cost Nokia, around 3 billion or so in the last year. (if one extrapolated the upward curve they were on before February to now and compared to current results).

I'm willing to go for only 10% of that.

After that:
- Sure we can do WP, and Android
- We'll do Maemo (or Tizen) as the high end "aspirational models"
- and Symbian will continue, and be eventually transferred to Maemo/Tizen
- We will make no more than 10 different models of phones, no more than 20 different hardware configurations, and no more than 80 possible configurations of hardware and colors. (That should cut down on Nokia's current complication in manufacturing by at least 2/3!)
- I'm going on a extended market research tour to Asia. Stops to include beaches, temples, and monasteries in China, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Philippines! Due to the importance of this market area I can spend no less than 3 months on this trip.

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

Dear employees,

I am going to piss on your fireworks. Oh wait... I mean Your platform is burning and many of you are going to be fired.

Ecosystem Strategy Synergy Ecosystem user experience Ecosystem.

Yours sincerely

Stephen (E is for ecosystem) Lop


PS: Did anyone just here something drop?

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

I would issue a burning platform memo about WP7.

I would then oversee the development of a new range of phones.

1) I would start work on Maemo 7, an evolution of 5.. not a re-write, this would be the backbone of a hybrid device, like the Galaxy Note except this would have a slide out keyboard. 8mp rear camera and 2mp front facing camera. Quad-Core processor and 1gb of RAM. 64 GB Internal storage.

2) I would begin work on the first Andoid device, this would be the iPhone killer. It would be comparable to the SGS3 in terms of size and specs (latest processing speeds) but would be in a chassis that's worthy of being a Nokia phone. This would also feature the Pureview camera which would be the real selling point.

3) Keep symbian for the low end devices. Keep them to a maximum of 4 devices.

4) Ensure each of the new devices has a clear roadmap, a successor coming out every 16-18 months while staying true to the unique design of each device.

If this happened, the company would be turned around in 2 years.

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

depends on whats in the pipeline.

- continue with wp8, stop making new tango devices (probably happening)

- launch a new nokia platform with Qt 5 as fast as possible. Covering low/mid to high end. (probably happening)

- keep s40 for the very low end, but don't invest much in full touch versions etc. (??)

- do one good-looking high-end android phone in the case everything else goes wrong. (not happening)

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

Hmm, if I stops all smartphone development and focus solely on Nokia 1100 and Nokia 100 (phones without OS), will I be the worst CEO? Or properly doing a lot better?

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

Announce that going forward, WP7 is a North American mostly endeavor and that movement towards Apollo is swift and all prior phones will indeed get that update.

Re-announce Symbian Belle as Belle, state that going forward Symbian will enjoy a synergy with Nokia like it's had before and more phones like the 808 are coming down the pipe. Drive costs down by their newly found ability to talk to carriers now for certain phones, re-establish a distribution channel in all countries where Nokia is sold (read: sell directly from their website, give incentives for folks to buy from them directly where they keep the money for themselves much like Apple and Dell do now).

Remove Elop from CEO to Manager of North American Sales and give him a much lesser speaking role.

Rehire (silently) the Harmattan folks, give them ownership over the project, allow them breathing room, set them up nicely and on the way out of the door, close it gently with two words "Create magic" and fund them properly for once. Set up a realistic schedule, look at running on top of Tizen and/or continuing MeeGo 1.3 or bring back Maemo as a new(er) line of phones.

Sell dual-sim phones in countries that like them, understand that the carriers will hate me there. Break into other areas, like China, that are starting to push their own stuff, start hiring local talent and push that as part of your new culture - an expanding culture.

Oh... and learn how to communicate better.

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

Gerbick - you're hired!!!

One proviso though. I reckon closing the door with the words "make magic" is what happened before. It needs to be three words "make magic quickly!"

People arent all the same, so I would..

(Re)launch the N9 and 808 worldwide. Not everyone wants them, but as niche devices, which the press (including the american tech press) has loved, they should see a decent level of success and bring some badly needed brand cachet back to Nokia

Re-arm the N950 as a Nokia Communicator NG and push out ASAP. Also make available a WP version if possible. I would allow swipe to be replaced with a Maemo style manager for maximum flexibility.

Develop a couple of larger tablet style devices - 5.5" and a 7" or 10" with the ability to double-boot or at least choose at point of sale between WP/Harmattan

Release drivers as either source or binary blobs so the linux and Android hacking communities can get to work.

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

Here's my plan B:

1. Continue support for WP devices.
2. Two specced out Windows 8 tablets available on WP8 launch day.
3. Introduce pureview to launch WP8 high-end Nokias (keep same design).
4. Resurrect MeeGo. Comes in 2 forms (N9 and N950) and 2 size classes (N9 and Lumia 900) in three configurations (32/64/128 GB memory). These models will be refreshed once a year around October and OS compatibility is always 3 generations. This October's models match in CPU/GPU/etc. specs Samsung GS3 / HTC OneX.
5. Announce in-house app team for MeeGo and WP. People get to vote on open forum what software feature is missing, and every month the highest voted feature gets implemented (0.99€ download, or free with the next year MeeGo OS update).


I'm not sure what to do with Symbian, anyway, I think if the above was implemented, nice profits would follow.

p.s. Elop is executing my plan A to the letter. As far as I know, the 31st of May 2012, is the last work day for the Maemo/MeeGo guys still at Nokia.

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

Burn all platforms. Go all in with Android and Tizen. Just call Tizen meego 2. Then, if WP is getting anywhere, make some low end WP junk for the masses.

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

I am always saying that Nokia was the giant of the mobiles, but when you succeed to reach the top you would try to reach more or you'll be satisfied with what you achieved, that's what happened with Nokia

they kept using Symbian as an OS for their phones while the people are converting to Android and windows phones.

if Nokia wants to get high again and to be at the top and if I am the manager, I will try to cooperate with Google to convert to Android using it as a operating system for my smartphones

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Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

I would -

Keep a few S40 'proper' phone models with a numeric keypad
Design a market-leading premium android device with top-of-the-range hardware and excellent reception. Maybe a glass uni-body? Don't tell me an android device with top nokia hardware won't sell like hotcakes
Develop mid-range phones based on the N9/lumia800/900 which run android
Keep a single maemo phone with keyboard, deb packages, gtk for geeks and developers, and see what it turns into.

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

call quits on the smart phone business and reinvent themselves into the commercial space industry lol they can become new market leader :)

p.s me and my brother had this discussion about a month ago, it was awesome...

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

Or, Keep symbian and WP for mid-low phones for USA...

And MeeGo as high-end..

Meltimi for low-end phones...

Push Qt for all 4 OSes really hard...

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

Once WP8 comes out and specs are allowed to be higher, create a WP8 phone and a Meego phone like the current N9 and Lumia 800, sell them both as high end phones. Move to meltimi/symbian for mid-low phones.

Then go on a marketing blitz something along the lines like customers have choice with us.

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

meego.

10char

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

keep WP as flagship/mid-end/low-end/no-end +mass spamming gsm provider for ******ed US/AUS/UK/any country that looks down on symbian.

Symbian+MeeGo as dual flagship phone for rest of the world

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

Long live Meegooooo

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

Three words: Maemo Six development. :D

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

create new line of smartphone.. i mean open source smartphone. and let the user choose their own operating system... maemo..meego...android...wp7 or else... ha..ha...ha... can it be done? i dont know... but i think its not imposible...

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

1 i would continue making WP's as high config as possible full hd screen, penta cores, 2gb ram and all

2 a then i would secretly publish all the drivers and Kernel to install Maemo MeeGo & Android on the devices mentioned in #1 :D :) ;)

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

Step one badmouth WP 7 as much as I can.

Step two leak fake information I'm about to switch to android.

Step three get a *****load off money from Ballmer to seel him a dying company

Createa new one with that money and support true open source alternatives.

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

No need to do that. Giving WP7 any press would be seen as a good thing.

Misleading the board of directors, shareholders and fans would be a disaster.

Shaking hands with Ballmer is like putting your hand in a sewer. Sure, you can say that you put your hand in a river of **** once, but what is that really worth to you?

Open source shouldn't need money, it should be built on a valid meritocracy. Problem is... that means either the model is flawed or so far, only Red Hat, Novell and a handful of others are doing it right and supporting themselves.

Nokia hasn't fully been open source. All of their endeavors have had closed, proprietary drivers (can't fully blame Nokia here, other vendors have created these problems) and that's a problem when they WONTFIX stuff going forward and rapidly abandon pricey hardware like the N9.

My point - people are talking in terms that show very little business acumen; more fan based rhetoric will not save Nokia. They made the devices that fans loved - and still need saving. We're (the fans) are a very minor part of what makes their bottom numbers look great and keep people happy.

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

I probably wouldn’t have much of a chance for a strategy change to begin with. We don't know the exact details, but Elop signed some kind of agreement with Microsoft and that is binding. Irrespective on whoever is the CEO. From the little we know, its pretty obvious that at least on the short term there wouldn't be any change. The agreement is binding and any change, even if we forget the agreement, would take time.

For a "ready" technology it takes quite a bit of time to get it into market. Think about just all the radio transmission safety work and getting the approval for a phone from European and American regulators to sell a phone. That is 6 months or so and Nokia isn't even there. To hire the people required for change, to have them produce something, to have that approved for markets and to have apps for market and so forth...game over for Nokia.

I suppose what I'm wondering is this: Why does anyone even care anymore? The best Nokia can hope for is that Microsoft succeeds and Nokia becomes the mobile Dell. For everything else it’s too late. No resources left for Nokia to develop anything else, no time left, no ideas left. Nothing left for anything else.

I just read on Engadget that there is a rumour about Facebook buying Nokia. That would actually be good. I’m saying that as a resident of Espoo. Not a Nokian, but still as someone whose community is highly dependent on whatever happens to Nokia. That is how far, or how low, Nokia has gone. It would good, if FB bought Nokia. At least something for shareholders and for Nokia employees.

Fake up fanbois. Both the brand and the spirit of Nokia are long dead. Stop beating the dead horse. It only gets the flies and that terrible smell up in the air.

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

Ok...
so I am the new Nokia CEO..
what is my strategy?

First ...buy as much nokia stock as possible ....personally...

Spend a bit of coin...and do a massive ad campaign..
promoting the new device ...the must have successor to every conceivable previous Nokia device.
the brand new Nokia N1000
Otherwise known as "the Kitchen Sink Phone"
(comparable to the well known Homermobile...)
https://media.giphy.com/media/l2JdSP...U16o/giphy.gif

Stock increases...
pay modest dividend to shareholders..

Then ..
Hire the finest minds ...
and the greatest labs filled with the best equipment...

Do yet more advertising how fandabulous the device will be...

Stock increases
pay modest dividend to shareholders..

Then ...Encourage everyone to throw all their money at the funding kickstarter ..

Do some promotional work showing the advancements made...

Stock increases ..
pay modest dividend to shareholders..

Do a heart warming promo pitch and get an invalid wheelchair confined terminally ill young kid ...and promote how the device will not only be a blessing to humanity and how it will change Little Tiny Tim's life...but also state that when the device is finally completed "with your generous support" ....then Little Tiny Tim will get the first device...
Big "Awwww" how cute moment ...
Excellent publicity ...
Even more people invest in the N1000...

Do another kickstarter which is the preorder...

Announce the impending completion and release of the N1000 uber device.

Stock increases through the roof...
pay modest dividend to shareholders..

Everyone dumps their money into orders...and completion of preorders...

Sell all non-essential nokia properties...

Sell all personal nokia stocks...

Fire 98% of all staff...before payday...
preferably before Christmas too if possible..

Return all "rent-to-own" lab equipment...

Kick Little Tiny Tim out of his fancy wheelchair and sell it too...

Funnel all the company funds including orders, preorders and fund raising for the N1000 ...straight into my Cayman Islands bank accounts...

Flee the country to a warm tropical one where there are no extradition laws...

Call up Elop ...
and scream ..."HA! Topped ya! In yur face biatch!!!!!"

hahaha
ahhh...sigh...
I know it sounds pretty heartless...
But in essence the above formula has been going on for a long time now...
and people are still buying into it...over and over again...
with great fervor ...I might add...

Re: You're now the CEO of Nokia. What's your smartphone strategy?
 

Love it. I would invest.

It would be fun to know what would happened if Nokia continued down the road with Symbian/Maemo.

Me as CEO? Forget that I’m not ceo-material. I’m rather the investor backing the CEO!

Like a cheerleader! Or that fishy consultant that sold the idea to nokia in the first place. If that story is true: Operation Elop!