Originally Posted by Kangal

I'm gonna take a stab in the dark, and say that the pixelated images are a form of Japanese bukkake.

Originally Posted by lantern

Sorry guys, didn't read the thread, just my 2 cents.

Since Americans decided to kill Nokia in about 2007-2008 (mobiles became too important and they realized it) and successfully implemented it, now Nokia can make phones again, being some small 3d class company a-la Alcatel.

Besides, imho, it was just strange that Finnish (sic!) company was n. 1 in phones - it was an oversight by the USA , but they quickly corrected their mistake.

Originally Posted by gerbick

First things first... Elop is Canadian. Microsoft is indeed American; but Elop was invited to Nokia by the Nokia board first. He made the decision to bring in the Americans; blame the shared border perhaps?

Not unless you're going to go for the semantic proper use of American, meaning North American in this sense. Lack of North/South typically denotes that you mean a person from the United States of America.

Either way, the Finnish board brought in the North American Elop from Canada and allowed him to make those decisions that brought in the North American company Microsoft from the United States of America which led to a huge set of layoffs in Finland, a write-off in the United States of America and a prior Microsoft CEO to be replaced with the current one that's in place and seems to have a rather limited like/use for the Lumia brand - denoted by the lack of Lumia flagship at the moment.

Hopefully Nokia will come back. It can be done right. No more Canadian or US citizens at the helm of a Finnish company perhaps?

Originally Posted by MisterMaster

Well it would not be the first time when CIA destroys one business of Finnish Company. Like Rauma-Repola's submarines:
http://www2.hs.fi/english/archive/ne...id=20031022IE6

But I guess CIA did not destroy Nokia's mobile business. But who knows.

Originally Posted by gerbick

Either way, the Finnish board brought in the North American Elop from Canada and allowed him to make those decisions

Originally Posted by endsormeans

...for the record
In formal and proper Canadian etiquitte .... on behalf of the Canadian gov't and people...
"Terribly sorry about that and all...eh?"

Originally Posted by gerbick

First things first... Elop is Canadian. Microsoft is indeed American; but Elop was invited to Nokia by the Nokia board first. He made the decision to bring in the Americans; blame the shared border perhaps?

Not unless you're going to go for the semantic proper use of American, meaning North American in this sense. Lack of North/South typically denotes that you mean a person from the United States of America.

Either way, the Finnish board brought in the North American Elop from Canada and allowed him to make those decisions that brought in the North American company Microsoft from the United States of America which led to a huge set of layoffs in Finland, a write-off in the United States of America and a prior Microsoft CEO to be replaced with the current one that's in place and seems to have a rather limited like/use for the Lumia brand - denoted by the lack of Lumia flagship at the moment.

Hopefully Nokia will come back. It can be done right. No more Canadian or US citizens at the helm of a Finnish company perhaps?