Thread: Nokia on the brink of failure
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gerbick
2012-04-16 , 17:47
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Originally Posted by aironeous View Post
I see your point. By definition If he is a Trojan Horse there has to be a group of people that has been conned into believing this was all rosey and nice but they were really tricked but if that were so then why has he not been "field goal" kicked out of the company by now by any means necessary.
Ok. I can see things this way. But between you and I... let's be honest. How do you convince an entire board of directors from within? People want to blame the investors and the board of directors which are mostly (and falsely claimed) to be North American.

The Board of Directors for Nokia are mostly European: here's a list.

So what happened? You have to have failures for the board to have gone into such a radical different direction. Comes with Music wasn't a success. N-Gage was not a success. Symbian was still selling damn well, so that's not a failure. Maemo had started and stopped 4 times, was working on the 5th iteration, the final step out of what was planned - but that wasn't happening fast enough nor at a pace that would have made any other iteration, N900 included on par with other mainstream successes. So that was a long term "failure" if you were going to use modern criteria (read: iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S sales) for comparisons.

Combine a bit if this, a bit of that, a "dying" OS that was looking dated to most folks that didn't listen to Belle's updates were coming.

It was an easy sell. Something needed to be done, there was a burning platform, the board must have felt something was amiss because their sells, while great, had been on the steady decline since 2007.

But I submit to you that it is the wider audience, the customer base/employee culture/ecomark.... I mean ecosystem that is serving as the loyal group that has been infiltrated by this trojan horse and there are collaborators on the inside.
Ecosystem was only a sell if and only if they felt as if something was missing. Comes with Music/Ovi Music, the e-mail situation (moved to Yahoo of all people), et al... something was just wrong and Elop, in typical PT Barnum manner sold the board what they felt was missing.

Ecosystem.

Such a dirty word now, isn't it?

And he is not letting the N9 into major markets and Symbian just needed a UI change and to break the lowest processor possible trend because it is super carrier friendly. His intent is to destroy Nokias other OS's and kamikaze nokia into the enemies of android and apple and if there is anything left let microhard have it if they still want it.
This... made absolutely no sense to me. The decision not to sell something that had a positive buzz on many forums and tech blogs should have been followed up with at least a limited sell in those areas plus support/warranty support in those limited areas.

But instead... they didn't do that. Nokia did something worse - they put each and every one of their eggs into one basket. Not smart.

Why else would Microhard buy Skype to piss off carriers after he makes the announcement? I mean killing QT was so so so obvious a trojan horse move.
The Skype purchase goes deeper than just carriers. Who uses MSN? Who uses Live communicator? Who uses their products for IM - which is quickly starting to surpass SMS in most countries?

eBay couldn't figure out what to do with Skype - mismatch right there, imho. So why not do that?

Can't kill Qt by that move. Skype, VLC and quite a few others still use Qt to this day.