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I think you are partly correct as to why people are hating on Elop and Nokia. While you may say we are wrong and Nokia is in a tight spot lets look at the history of Elop, Microsoft and Nokia. Most of this I knew and some I learned from others on this forum.

Elop came from a company named Macromedia and sold Macromedia to Adobe, their was a program called Director which was like Flash on steroids and my personal opinion had more advanced features then Flash has now. Adobe took over Macromedia and killed Director as it would cause competition internally and also if sold to another company and Director died.
Source: http://piacentini.blog.br/2011/02/elop-is-after-me/

Microsoft is a good and bad up company at the same time. Microsoft does not innovate until they get pressured by competition. Microsoft is also a company filled with failures
ZUNE-Fail, WMA-Fail, Backing HD DVD-Fail, Mobile 6.5-Fail, Windows Tablets-Fail, BOB-Fail, Windows ME-Fail, UMPC's-Fail, Kin-Fail, Passing on YouTube-Fail....thats off my head their is a super long list I cant find right now but about 20 more is missing.
This is the part that should scare you!
Microsoft and the KIN. Microsoft took over a phone OS development group called Danger for $500 Million. They responsible for the T-Mobile SideKick. Microsoft then kills off the SideKick and releases the KIN and could not sell 8,000 of them. That a $500 Million dollar loss. The SideKick is no more and the SideKick community which was huge is no more(I'm one of them).

Nokia a strong company who gained the trust of millions by embracing Open development, quality phones and keeping customer loyalty. If you understand Symbian3 you would understand they are not a burning platform as Elop says how ever their bad decisions to release a OS only to kill is has put them in this place and it is Nokia's fault.

WP7 sold 2 Million phones on different Hardware manufactures.
Symbian sold 6 to 8 on just Nokia in the same time.

Nokia has been making bad decisions for some time now, is this just another.

With know all this, would you being Nokia make the same decision?
And will you be buying a Nokia/WP7?
Now I ask you, should we not be mad?

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Last edited by deyons; 2011-02-14 at 02:00.
 

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