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2009-10-16 , 15:21
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This just showed up on Reuters. The overview:

* Splits phone business into three
* Former CFO Rick Simonson to head core phone businesses
* Jo Harlow named head of smartphones
* Apple's John Martin to head high-end mobile computers unit
* Sales chief Timo Ihamuotila to take over as CFO

All Maemo products fall into the "high-end mobile computers unit" (the smartphone unit is for Symbian devices). Martin is supposed to take over in November.

An Apple-ite in charge of the N900 and Maemo.

Let the gnashing of teeth begin.

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssC...11535220091016
 

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2009-10-16 , 15:28
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* Former CFO Rick Simonson to head core phone businesses
This means they want this unit to be the as cost effective as possible.

* Apple's John Martin to head high-end mobile computers unit
That is actually good news. Remember that some people behind the Palm Pre were former Apple guys.
 

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This means they want this unit to be the as cost effective as possible.



That is actually good news. Remember that some people behind the Palm Pre were former Apple guys.
Yes. And they managed to mess up completely. That's the guys creating the whole Jamie Z. trouble, remember?

(Note that I don't think there's any reason whatsoever to mistrust this Apple person in this role at Nokia, ref. Quim's writings on the issue. What I'm saying above is that the argument about Palm Pre is not the most assuring pro-Apple argument.. )
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2009-10-16 , 15:41
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Took long enough.
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Yes. And they managed to mess up completely. That's the guys creating the whole Jamie Z. trouble, remember?

(Note that I don't think there's any reason whatsoever to mistrust this Apple person in this role at Nokia, ref. Quim's writings on the issue. What I'm saying above is that the argument about Palm Pre is not the most assuring pro-Apple argument.. )
My point is, that someone comes from Apple doesn't automatically mean that they want to impose Apple's closed ecosystem where there go.

I know the Palm Pre issues with the developer community, however, the base idea is still quite more open than Apple's.
 
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My point is, that someone comes from Apple doesn't automatically mean that they want to impose Apple's closed ecosystem where there go.

I know the Palm Pre issues with the developer community, however, the base idea is still quite more open than Apple's.
Yes, and that subject has been hashed over well enough. I admit to being concerned myself, but I'm willing to wait and see.
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2009-10-16 , 16:57
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Yes, and that subject has been hashed over well enough. I admit to being concerned myself, but I'm willing to wait and see.
I don't think we have any other option...hehe

BTW, how is the N900 going?
 
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Yes. And they managed to mess up completely. That's the guys creating the whole Jamie Z. trouble, remember?
How do you conclude they messed up completely? How do you know who developed the policy?

That trouble you refer to was result of policy which got changed recently, after the trouble emerged. Same former Apple folks who did reversed the policy, was it a holy ex-Be engineer, or the kittens, or...? I'm damn sure the engineers at Apple who do UI design are not the same folks who do security and DRM design, nor same folks who define policies of what is allowed in the software repositories.
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That is actually good news. Remember that some people behind the Palm Pre were former Apple guys.
So were the guys behind OQO - the Apple tablet if Apple had made a tablet. Now bankrupt.
 
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Wild rumour going on in finnish media: Rick Simonson will be next CEO after OPK retires. This roulette of changing seats was done so that Simonson could get experience on hardware side of business.

EDIT. Checked more finnish news sites and saw just the opposite rumours, Simonson has been sidetracked from CEO path by this move. Anyway, I think that there is truckloads of behind the scenes corporate powerplay going on right now.
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