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wmarone is offline wmarone
2011-02-21 , 19:30
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Originally Posted by BigBadGuber! View Post
Looks like you have an inside scoop on Nokia management.
Not really, but Elop has always been in a position to make sweeping changes but completely failed to do so.

If the mess was so bad as you insinuate, It would have taken Elop years to figure out all the problems and put things on tracks. It will still take him a long time to clean up the house and put it on the WP7 track.
Yet it will apparently only take to the end of the year to get WP7 devices out. Things move fast when you actually remove roadblocks.

That is why I said that this deal is great for NOKIA, but not so great for MS. They are giving billions to NOKIA, and NOKIA needs to get their act together to execute.
It's great for MS. For a pittance they get someone to basically assume all the risk of going exclusive with their platform. Nokia will sink or swim on WP7 now, and MS will sit back and watch. No one else was willing to take that risk.

The other good thing of switching to MS. You have an excuse to fire a whole lot of incompetent software leaders at NOKIA!
Well, the managers who are blamed by people on the inside for the standstill are apparently being retained. Instead, they'll be firing a lot of programmers, likely indiscriminately of their talents or drive.

Of course, the shift to WP7 ensures I will most likely not be their customer in the future. Switching to horribly locked down, anti-user systems are not a good way of keeping my business.
 

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