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Originally Posted by qole View Post
I'm constantly surprised that a Big Company like Nokia, with its Big Company Strategies like company-wide layoffs (what a lazy way to manage your human resources! Especially if your workforce is essentially "stable"!), was not only able to produce a revolutionary technology like the tablets, but somehow not kill the whole project at one of many stages along the way... and then go on to hire guys like Quim and embrace such a radical open source strategy... It's all so out of character.

It's like a boring accountant type taking off his pinstripe suit, putting on oily jeans and an "I heart Linux" T-Shirt and building a flying car in his garage. What the heck?!

Is it because Nokia is from the Land of Linux? (Does Finland have a statue of Torvalds yet? Or is it in constant development, with guys all over the world working on it in their spare time?)
Actually, these kinds of workforce adjustments are de rigeur for Nokia. There's not a high percentage of people who have been there for even 5 years. They are a bit of an oxy***** - a high tech company that is fiscally conservative. It works for them, but the periodic change of personnel is not pleasant to work with.

And Nokia did manage to kill off the 7710 touchscreen project four years ago - an absolutely dreadful decision. They had the iPhone market in their hands and pissed it away. Maybe the product manager was a victim of one of these events.