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BigBadGuber! 2011-08-17 22:35

Elop says that his strategy was validated by Google Takeover!
 
Elop tells Android phone manufacturers to be scared!!


http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...77G0TQ20110817

mikecomputing 2011-08-17 22:51

Re: Elop says that his strategy was validated by Google Takeover!
 
Everytime he opens his fuking mouth he proves he still at Microsoft. Now he is pissing in hisl paint cause he is affraid Androids help to kill WP.

gerbick 2011-08-17 22:54

Re: Elop says that his strategy was validated by Google Takeover!
 
Motorola still has to bid to be the next Nexus phone, just like everybody else. Nothing new or favorable for Motorola Mobility in that area.

The FUD is high on this one. And I totally dislike that term... but it fits.

danramos 2011-08-17 23:14

Re: Elop says that his strategy was validated by Google Takeover!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by BigBadGuber! (Post 1072114)
Elop tells Android phone manufacturers to be scared!!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...77G0TQ20110817

Hahaha! I love this quote...
"If I happened to be someone who was an Android manufacturer or an operator, or anyone with a stake in that environment, I would be picking up my phone and calling certain executives at Google and say 'I see signs of danger ahead,'" Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop told a Helsinki seminar.

If I happened to be someone who was a Maemo developer or customer, or anyone with a stake in that environment, I would be picking up my phone and calling certain OTHER executives at Nokia and say 'I see signs of danger ahead,' after ex-Microsoft Business Division executive in charge of the Kin project Stephen Elop was hired on as the new Nokia Chief Executive.

I suspect I had more weight with my warning and still do. :)

olighak 2011-08-17 23:21

Re: Elop says that his strategy was validated by Google Takeover!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by BigBadGuber! (Post 1072114)
Elop tells Android phone manufacturers to be scared!!


http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...77G0TQ20110817

BULLSH|T!

There, I called it.

MINKIN2 2011-08-17 23:38

Re: Elop says that his strategy was validated by Google Takeover!
 
"Elop says that his strategy was validated by Google Takeover! "

I did not read those words in the article, but heck! It may as well be true because it's not like Nokia actually have a WinNo phone on sale to back up his strategy.

Not that anyone want one :P

Mentalist Traceur 2011-08-17 23:45

Re: Elop says that his strategy was validated by Google Takeover!
 
Elop isn't with Microsoft, he's just the typical type of person who makes it up the corporate ladder - narrow minded, incapable of seeing past their biases, and generally not very intelligent. (Not necessarily stupud, just not that smart either.) He went with Windows Phone 7 because deep down inside that's what his brain knows and understands.

And he dropped MeeGo because he blamed the slowness in development of that on it being MeeGo and made in-house, not on flaws of the internal beaurocracy, where that blame probably lay (given that Harmattan MeeGo didn't take too long to pop out of Nokia's woodwork shortly after all the layoff sprees). Again something people do when they are face with things that aren't part of their status quo - when people see problems in something they know/understand/approve-of they blame the circumstances/people involved, when they see problems in something they don't know/understand/approve-of, they blame the something in question.

But as much as I don't like to defend Elop, the Kin is an unjust criticism - the Kin was largely strangled from within by Microsoft coorporate politics by the guy who headed the more main-line Window Mobile division, based on what I've read.

danramos 2011-08-17 23:51

Re: Elop says that his strategy was validated by Google Takeover!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur (Post 1072147)
Elop isn't with Microsoft, he's just the typical type of person who makes it up the corporate ladder - narrow minded, incapable of seeing past their biases, and generally not very intelligent. (Not necessarily stupud, just not that smart either.) He went with Windows Phone 7 because deep down inside that's what his brain knows and understands.

And he dropped MeeGo because he blamed the slowness in development of that on it being MeeGo and made in-house, not on flaws of the internal bureaucracy, where that blame probably lay (given that Harmattan MeeGo didn't take too long to pop out of Nokia's woodwork shortly after all the layoff sprees). Again something people do when they are face with things that aren't part of their status quo - when people see problems in something they know/understand/approve-of they blame the circumstances/people involved, when they see problems in something they don't know/understand/approve-of, they blame the something in question.

But as much as I don't like to defend Elop, the Kin is an unjust criticism - the Kin was largely strangled from within by Microsoft corporate politics by the guy who headed the more main-line Window Mobile division, based on what I've read.

Isn't it ironic, then, that Maemo/MeeGo and Symbian were largely strangled from within by that very same Microsoft corporate guy who had that experience? I'm just saying--it seems to me that Elop is a very difficult person to defend and, as someone else said more eloquently, every time he opens his mouth he places more evidence into existence to prove that he's probably clinically stupid.

xerxes2 2011-08-17 23:55

Re: Elop says that his strategy was validated by Google Takeover!
 
My gut keeps telling me that this clown will soon be back in his old office.

xerxes2 2011-08-18 00:09

Re: Elop says that his strategy was validated by Google Takeover!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by danramos (Post 1072150)
Isn't it ironic, then, that Maemo/MeeGo and Symbian were largely strangled from within by that very same Microsoft corporate guy who had that experience? I'm just saying--it seems to me that Elop is a very difficult person to defend and, as someone else said more eloquently, every time he opens his mouth he places more evidence into existence to prove that he's probably clinically stupid.

Exactly. Nokia have spent millions (maybe even billions) on making something like Symbian Belle, which isn't even released yet, and Elop officially trashes it. WTF! Symbian sells more phones in one hour than WP7 sells in a month! It just doesn't make any sense killing your cash cow before you have a new (better) one.


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