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By law he has a fiduciary duty with the company HE works for, that being Nokia if something happens to Nokia HE can get a nasty lawsuit from the shareholders as he is not protected by the corporate veil.
He is making a very bold move and if his bet pays off (which has a better gain rate than android) he is going to put Nokia in the center of the map.
He is making a very bold move and if his bet pays off (which has a better gain rate than android) he is going to put Nokia in the center of the map.
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Originally Posted by leviathan18
I don't think anybody believes he is going to run Nokia to the ground with intent. That would be counter-productive for both his interests, Nokia and Microsoft, but anybody who believes that the choice of going with WP7 rather than Android is based on some altruistic choice of "making it a three horse race" is naive at best.
By law he has a fiduciary duty with the company HE works for, that being Nokia if something happens to Nokia HE can get a nasty lawsuit from the shareholders as he is not protected by the corporate veil.
He is making a very bold move and if his bet pays off (which has a better gain rate than android) he is going to put Nokia in the center of the map.
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2011-02-20
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Originally Posted by leviathan18
Interesting. What is the value of a 1% increase in his shares, and what is the highest penalty/settlement anyone has ever been made to pay for this crime?
By law he has a fiduciary duty with the company HE works for, that being Nokia if something happens to Nokia HE can get a nasty lawsuit from the shareholders as he is not protected by the corporate veil.
Originally Posted by leviathan18
YES the uber-popular windows CE pocketpc 7 OS is going to put Nokia at the center of the map. This happens due to a signed overflow, since microsoft maps only work for areas the size of redmond, which places nokia at the center.
He is making a very bold move and if his bet pays off (which has a better gain rate than android) he is going to put Nokia in the center of the map.
With android at least nokia would've saved some money on building a new BSP.
Now they get some coffee money, a shitty OS, and have to write code to babysit the new OS.
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Originally Posted by gerbick
Surely, you don't believe owning the right phone is a life or death kind of deal?
There was a new, purchasable MeeGo device already released?
Originally Posted by gerbick
It's supported by maemo.org, that's enough for me.
I wasn't talking about the N900. I was talking about a properly released MeeGo device. It's not an officially supported device by Nokia for MeeGo despite being the baseline spec and hardware target for MeeGo.
Originally Posted by gerbick
Did you consider that the board may consist of ... glorified accountants?
Could have, would have, should have... didn't. Not even their own board thought they could have gotten the devices out.
or even ... glorified accountants with alternate agendas?
Originally Posted by gerbick
Irrelevant, all choices made by elop + his cohorts during the last weeks are pure speculation.
Did it happen? Yes/No only
When it works, yes. It just didn't happen.
If you're going to speculate, a winning recipe is to add at least some reality (pretty hard for accountants).
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Originally Posted by mishmich
exactly. any current os could fit your description in 5 years... even android and ios.
Having something sexy to sell to the people who buy things, people who just want something that they can use to do all the things that people do with iPhones, iPads and Android devices. It isn't rocket science. If you don't have something sexy for people to buy, something as sexy as what your competitors are having trouble keeping up with demand - then you don't compete, you don't make enough profit, you lose your dominant position in the market, and that is a big problem.
the boat -metaphor is pretty bad, in real life every os has a boat of its own and only the speed they can travel in current situatuon. when situation changes, other boats gain speed and others get slower.
for example ios has got relatively fast boat but its speed is limited. android has been very slow until recent hyperspeed, and symbians boat has been slowly getting slower and slower.
the problem with your logics is that it is really short-sighted. what you said applies for now but what about 2016? no os can be market leader for infinite time.
e: with your logic ios android would have been doomed attempts in 2008...
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Originally Posted by Funklord
Matters on who's life.
Surely, you don't believe owning the right phone is a life or death kind of deal?
It's supported by maemo.org, that's enough for me.
Did you consider that the board may consist of ... glorified accountants?
or even ... glorified accountants with alternate agendas?
Irrelevant, all choices made by elop + his cohorts during the last weeks are pure speculation.
If you're going to speculate, a winning recipe is to add at least some reality (pretty hard for accountants).
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Originally Posted by pasih
I break my silence in a moment of weakness.
I'm not sure if it's been said here already but Elop sold all his MS stock last Thursday and bought 150 000 pieces of Nokia stock which was worth 1 million euros. He had pretty bad publicity here when it was revealed he had MS stock and not a single Nokia, so who knows, maybe it was damage control once again. Well, he's now really invested in Nokia
Pasih... you're just inventing things... negative things, specifically. A little bit of digging before engaging in wild speculation will reveal that due to regulatory issues he wasn't allowed to divest himself of MS shares and acquire Nokia shares. You don't need to know all of the regulations to know that there would be problems if he engaged in large Nokia stock transactions right before announcing a new corporate strategy, significant layoffs, etc. or engaged in MS stock transactions right before signing a deal with them. That would be insider trading. It's not damage control, its regulatory control.
“I couldn’t sell my Microsoft shares during the negotiations with Nokia. Now all that information is open to the markets,” Elop told journalists.
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Originally Posted by wmarone
Yada, yada, yada. MeeGo would provided a mobile OS by April?
I don't really care about what the anti-Elop people have to say, since often they don't have rational points. Posts like the one I responded to are rife across this forum, and full of misinformation.
Bollocks. If it could have, it would have provided something that we could use on the n900. It didn't, it won't, and it can't.
And yes, I keep hearing that I don't understand what MeeGo is. Obviously neither does anybody else who isn't working on it. All I know is it doesn't do anything useful. Every time a manager hears "but you don't understand how it works" when faced with something expensive that does nothing, they tend to think - so why bother with it?
I don't understand psychopaths either - doesn't mean I give them the benefit of the doubt and let them carry on doing what makes sense to them.
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Originally Posted by ossipena
Well, the metaphor is appropriate. But perhaps this is better. There is a party, and it has people in black suits and ties, while Nokia have turned up stark bollock naked. Doesn't matter what may have happened in 2008 or 2016 - they have nothing to offer right now. They are a company that employs a lot of people, has invested in plant and machinery - they cannot just put that all to one side in the hope that things might change in 5 years. They need a quick solution. That may be short sighted - but the reality of technology is that five years is a luxury. Things change in 6 months, and Nokia hasn't kept up.
exactly. any current os could fit your description in 5 years... even android and ios.
the boat -metaphor is pretty bad, in real life every os has a boat of its own and only the speed they can travel in current situatuon. when situation changes, other boats gain speed and others get slower.
for example ios has got relatively fast boat but its speed is limited. android has been very slow until recent hyperspeed, and symbians boat has been slowly getting slower and slower.
the problem with your logics is that it is really short-sighted. what you said applies for now but what about 2016? no os can be market leader for infinite time.
e: with your logic ios android would have been doomed attempts in 2008...
Why argue about it. It would be nice if it were otherwise. It would be nice if we could continue to indulge in our fantasies about what could/should be - but Android did, and Maemo/MeeGo didn't.
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