Thread: Let's talk Nokia stock. Really.
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Lumiaman
2013-01-02 , 13:38
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
These people you're labeling as "trolls" are people that have one underlying statement that's universally true... you expect your next CEO to make better decisions than the one prior.

OPK was not the best thing for Nokia after Jorma Ollila, and Elop isn't the better decision maker after OPK. Under OPK (this is well-talked about around these parts) Maemo was under-funded at a time it should have been pushed forward. Those gaps are just now being filled with the phablets by Samsung (10 million sold for the Galaxy Note II), 7 inch tablets by Google and Apple, and a Linux based OS/ecosystem/development environment like a lot of the competition that before just didn't exist before Maemo on a commercial scale.

You say troll. I see Nokia loyalists that wanted Elop to continue down a path that could have been corrected but wasn't. It was ignored. And thus left to die. Jolla, BB10, Mer, Nemo, Tizen (indirectly) and quite a few others are all benefitting from Elop ignoring Maemo. Sad when it could have been Nokia benefitting from that.

CEO's should make long-standing decisions that help the company. Sub-4.00 stock isn't a long-standing helpful position for Nokia.
Read the links above. it is a huge assumption that paths chosen pre-Elop could have been corrected. As many know, Nokia was focused more on hardware than seamless software. As a CEO, trying to make quick turnaround, would you want to work with a team that had Harmattan on the table since 2008???? We dont know the human resources issues at NOKIA and how dysfunctional they were, but everything points to a HUGE dysfunction and inability to deliver what iOS and Android did for masses: a smooth and versatile experience. N8, N9 and N900 were all beta OSes that sucked for the masses. And as mentioned above, NOKIA was never a good software company. They were not then, they were not now. They could not produce well integrated user experiences, hence their own attempts died out.

So Elop chose to outsource software to a software company, MS. Made sense then, perhaps makes sense in the future, only time will tell. Blaming everything on Elop is highly myopic, and clearly the board knows this, hence he is still employed.