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2011-02-18 , 20:36
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
That Nokia was in a worse condition (strategically, financially.... practically) than we assumed.

Otellini mentioned that as the reason Nokia exited MeeGo.

I'm not familiar with the Symbian side of things, but judging from their HUGE cutbacks (approved by the BOD and Jorma Ollila), which is no small issue at all since it relates to national matter/pride/economy... then there must be some issues there that they've decided they need to cut their losses out of.
There was absolutely nothing wrong with Nokia before Elop was hired. Even the current ugly Symbian is selling very well and the company is pulling in huge profits. But since Elop joined it went downhill. How many Symbian phones do you think they will sell after the burning platform memo? And moving to a system which has 1.5% of the smartphone market does not seem like a very smart move to me. Also how are they going to be able to sack people when they're extending their portfolio with WP7? But we'll see who's right in a year or so.
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But the WM7 "horse" has a blood lineage tracing back to donkeys such as WM6.5, 6.1, 6.0, 5.1 that was fully neglected for too many years and Microsoft did sweet F all to maintain it (still running on Pocket IE4/6!!).