Thread: Let's talk Nokia stock. Really.
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2013-09-03 , 11:40
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Originally Posted by daperl View Post
This is my favorite:
And they handled Skype expertly, did they? How about that Danger Inc. acquisition? That sort of looks a LOT like today's Nokia acquisition where most of the employees already left and went off to start their own cellphone OS (Andy Rubin started off at Danger Inc and went off to create Android).

Every time I thought of Stephen Elop, over all these years, I always kept imagining this scene in my mind--and his throwing the iPhone around on-screen once certainly didn't help--even the same daft grin and vacuous, subtly cross-eyed look:
http://youtu.be/sm1Jyusyoqk

(The paddle scene = Maemo/MeeGo) 
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