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Originally Posted by marxian View Post
I've always seen Nokia that way. Just the same as any other corporation. I've never understood the misty-eyed view of Nokia that some have.
TBQH I remember nokia being a cool company by 2004/2005. They were constantly in contact with symbian websites, blogs and their customers. The first time I was able to run Picodrive on a phone was on my 6600 during that time and that changed my opinion of what a phone could be forever. After the launch of the n95 they stopped being the same company. Negative reviews started pouring in on their newer models (96/97/n81) and the ngage 2.0 platform got lackluster support from both publishers and customers. Yet, those same dedicated symbian websites and blogs that had supported Nokia for years couldn't write anything bad about the company because they feared being blacklisted from events and stuff. It's like they were covering their ears and singing while their business crumbled around them. I distinctly remember reading about this on allboutsymbian or my-symbian, don't quite recall which one.
 

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