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Originally Posted by AndyNokia232 View Post
With the internet rife with stories relating to CEO Elop firing top executives on the board of Nokia, I can't help but wonder. Is he trying to save money by getting rid of the people who may have not pulled their weight in 2010 but are paid a substantial amount, or is he getting them out because they are not aware of their shortcomings (incompetent) which has damaged Nokia's sales and reputation? If those are the people responsible for Nokia's continuing lack of support for their products (N900 case in point) or the totally confusing decisions to put free voice navigation on only some of their phones, or the closure of the flagship stores (the one in New York was a wonderful presence, now gone from 57th St - and Nokia is mostly gone from the minds of US consumers) then good riddance. Like the rest of the geeks, I can't wait for Friday's announcement on Nokia's future. I really hope he gets it right.
If you think Elop give a **** about a small phone like N900 well you probadly is totally wrong. There probadly is alot bigger stuff to "cleanup/refresh" inside nokia atm..

N900 was bought mostly by "geeks" and was developed internally by a small group of geeks that wanted to see something new... I am sure this N700/N800/N900 was seen as an expriment inside Nokia. Not for massmarket even if some here thought soo...

But hopefully some of those old dinasaurs that makes most of the money on old symbian codebase is kicked! But my guess is not, cause thing is those engineers probadly dancing Elops pipe now to not get kicked and the open source people at Nokia will still be minimum. Thats includes those working with Meego in open... They probadly will still be the slave or seen as small groups of geeks.

Last edited by mikecomputing; 2011-02-07 at 21:15.