My opinion on what's on Elop's mind
 

This is just my personal opinion and if I offended you somehow, it is of my utmost apology.
So, we all know when Nokia's share in the market is declining, the previous CEO "resigned" and was replaced by the head of sales of Microsoft. The resume looks impressive, and the guy probably knows how to convince the board of director. However, if you dig deeper into his past, you will find that most companies he held senior position in, are either bankrupted or bought over by some other company.

What he is trying to do, is Americanised Nokia. Nokia never did sell well in North America for some reasons. My thoughts? Americans are too lazy to choose. Why go for iPhone? That's easy, that's the only Apple product. Why go for S2/3? That's easy, because it is the only phone that could compete with iPhone.

Sure, iPhone and Samsung and HTC has some innovation, but if you notice, they have been preying on the same features, thin, light, large screen, sharper screen, better camera, more apps. Sure, all manufacturers did the same, even Nokia does. Yet, Nokia's R&D department work very hard, though I can't say for their marketing department. On contrast, other manufacturers pump millions into marketing, but little to their R&D.

So, Elop tried to do the same thing. Fire brilliant R&D staff, hire big fat liars to marketing. I don't see what's wrong with that, other than dooming Nokia. What drives Nokia is the European minds behind them, great innovation and never too much marketing. Right now, he is trying to change it. Windows phone? Please, few millions dumped into the sea (marketing) and only caught some small anchovies. There are reasons why people disliked them.

I came across a slash gear post saying Elop is a genius... Well, they must be oblivious. Perhaps, in most Americans' minds, their small little pathetic market(few hundred millions) is bigger than the billions that all other countries can contribute. There are reasons why European companies are ran by non-American, and these are.

I must have confused you, feel free to debate here, or adding your opinions. Everyone is bias, mind you. I support Nokia N9 and you have rights to support others. Don't you dare say I am one bias man that deserved to be burned in hell.

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does it matter what you think or phrase ???
NO,it does not !!

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What a bunch of b**ss. Elop is trying to sell phone and the dinosaur line up is not selling. Those brilliant R&D people could never make software work out of the box. No matter what you say, the market has spoken: Symbian phones do not sell well.

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Symbian DOES sell well, Windows phones AREN'T :)

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I thought you were banned?

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Keep thinking, before thoughts are banned on this forum.

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My opinion is his job is to bankrupt Nokia & destroy its competing OS'es and blame problems on sales staff so that MS can buy the company cheap and use the Nokia patents to patent troll
and an investigation needs to be done into the board to find the bribes and/or blackmail since as you say it is obvious where he goes company goes bankrupt.

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My opinion is his job is to bankrupt Nokia & destroy its competing OS'es and blame problems on sales staff so that MS can buy the company cheap and use the Nokia patents to patent troll
and an investigation needs to be done into the board to find the bribes and/or blackmail since as you say it is obvious where he goes company goes bankrupt or bought by another company.

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I think you are underestimating the power of the carriers in the US. With the exception of the iPhone, Americans will buy only what they are shown by the sales people of one of the carriers. So american end-users are not the real customers for phone makers - the carriers are. Were it not for the iPhone, and the disruption it caused in the US, the carriers would still be selling Palm Treos to us.

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I wish they used the money they spent developing lumia on marketing the n9, but elop is just devastatingly an idiot.

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The phrase "when you're a hammer everything looks like a nail" comes to mind when I think of Elop. He's stunningly myopic. Nokia will not survive the Elop mistake.

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Isn't it so, that those old symbians are still outselling WP-devices:D

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It does. Just like yours sometimes.

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Most of the time, when I am debating with friends on smartphones topic, they and their iPhone, me with my harmattan, they would just call me being hipster, or some idiots. Why not iPhone, why not Android. They are oblivious, in so many ways.
I am not trying to say Windows phone are bad, but just not good enough. If Symbian is a burning platform, then WP must be the sun itself. They are just burning themselves. Sure, american telco makes huge difference, and if any manufacturer could convince them, their phones can sell well, strictly in US only, though.
Why not Europe and Asia? Even South American has a larger market. But no, Elop says, if Apple can sell a phone at premium, I want, too, by firing 10000 people just so he can gives away the lumia for free. Nokia was never about premium, it is about bringing features to the people. Exception like Vertu (The bastards even sell away Vertu for one undisclosed amount, must be small) and Nokia 8800. Nokia could have patented SMS, they could have patented antenna-less design. But they did not, I am Asian myself, and I admired Europeans a lot.
As Soviets often say, Capitalist Pig, they were right.

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I think even the Nokia 3310 sells way better than Lumias :)

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Ahem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

He's just trying to do his job, and not doing it very well. This fits more with what we know about him than these crazy conspiracy theories that he actually knows what he's doing.

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Well, I am only familiar with Occam's, but not Hanlon's.

By the way, these are all my personal assumption. He is doing his job, and we are discussing his strategy. Maybe he is a mole by Microsoft, or just a genius at ruining huge company, we never know for sure. For one thing, I hate his strategy.

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I don't know, maybe he just is a dirty pig with a talented puppeteer :D How he could be so high at the food chain with those brain cells? Or maybe it's just not such a thankful job, that no one else wants, which might be more likely :) But I wouldn't be surprised if microsoft had it's evil fat fingers in the game doing their dirty work. That's what atleast political leaders traditionally in USA are good at, repeating lies and doing cheap tricks, and this might be just that. Business as usual with no ethics. Though... the fail was not being able to deliver.

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I wonder when will his contract ends? Will he keep saying: "Trust me, it is going to work. Just give me more time. Look at this overly-optimistic projected market sales, it will succeed. Worse come to worse, I will just take your millions, and Nokia go bankrupt. What can be worse?"

Darn, I am scaring myself already