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2011-06-25
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FYI: in business, you can assume that anything that has not been inked in contract are still in constant negotiation.
It seems to me that Elop is as selfish as any professionals would be; he may have used MS as a stepping stone otw to where he is right now (top guy of the biggest mobile phone producer out there), but I doubt that his allegiance to MS is as blind as a fanboy's.
N9 and MeeGo, could be his bargaining chip against MS. If N9+MeeGo is successful, he will use it to gain more favorable terms in his dealings against MS (Since Nokia is gasping for breath/cash right now); and may use MeeGo on its own when Nokia is able to stand on its own again.
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2011-06-25
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2011-06-25
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I'm fairly certain that overall Elop is executing board's earlier made decisions. But at the same time I assume that former CEO and now the chairman of the board Jorma Ollila wouldn't be this quick to say no to Meego. It's not Elop alone who can kill linux inside Nokia, but of course he's got a lot of power to drive it down.
The history will tell us what Elop was really like as a CEO. Whether he really disses anything else than Microsoft's products remains to be seen.
Personally I'm afraid that he came to Nokia to be prepped to succeed Ballmer as a CEO of Microsoft, and he lets nothing get in the way of Nokia becoming a Windows Phone-only house.
As a Finn and as a European I'm really sad that after Nokia moves to Windows Phone there are only three major players in the mobile OS industry: iOS, Android and WinPhone, and they are all American, and the companies behind them are not exactly the most consumer friendly ones.
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2011-06-25
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2011-06-25
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Guys, I don't get the article.
Because read here: http://www.tu.no/forbruker/article288395.ece
“People don’t need to worry about we not supporting MeeGo wholeheartedly.” – Oskar Södergren, Communication Manager Nokia Scandinavia
He says that WP7 is and will be the main platform, but MeeGo still lives as the disruptor.
Even a Norwegian representative said the same thing.
Shut up with that finnish newspaper already!
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2011-06-25
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2011-06-25
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2011-06-25
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well thanks to this thread and the article, we might get a straigh answer from the CEO himself about support for N9.
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2011-06-25
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What makes you think 1) Elop reads this forum? 2) Gives a damn about what poeple post on here if he does?
Either he's a clown when it comes to being a CEO, which I doubt, or destroying the meego good news story is all part of his plan.
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It's no wonder if half the braintrust leaves Nokia like they do now, even if Elop is RIGHT, it still is hard to let go of as good an idea as MeeGo. And nobody really knows if he is right - infact, lots of **** indicates that he's running the company into an early grave.
I bet he lost a huge chunk of his top dynamic thinkers and doers.
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