Yeah, seriously who needs competition and variety. I hopes they debates to the forevers.

Dude, right on, four stars and an up arrow. America is fo-shizzle! I'm up for whatever future Steve Jobs lets me have. Who's with me!

The article point out exactly the same cause pulling IBM from industrial giant to a corporation desperately seeking partnerships to survive.

I were in the IBM during 80's. They've good technologies, but few could actually get out of the secured rooms. For one they've visual development tools inhouse while the rest of the world is still using text editors. Later the Visualage initiative collaborate with Microsoft's Visual Basic to build a RAD paradigm. Then we asked, WTF, we had everything we need inhouse, why in the hell we need to collaborate with something with relatively inferior technologies?

The catch was that the top management didn't even know what's in IBM, and believed that other companies were doing better than us. They focused on market segments, and pushing PS2-386 even though 486 are out and became majority, because they thought "statistics show the major market is using 386". PC manufacturers like DELL should really thank them for giving them chances to grow and hit mainstream.

The downfall of IBM is a well known story, but executives in Nokia fail to learn from it.

Hmm...

IBM Market cap: $161.82B
Dell Market cap: $26.44B

Haha. I get your point though. It'll be interesting to see how Nokia fares through all of this. There are many companies who would be good examples of Nokia. It's a problem systemic to industry leaders. They get too big too successful and become fat, lazy and arrogant. You say IBM, I say Sun Microsystems, there are many many others. Let's hope Nokia figure out sooner rather than later.

I think they've already figure it out when the stock price drop from 40 to 9 within 2 years. So much for concentrating on marketing instead of technologies. Someone sends them some Dilbert comics strips. XD

Agreed.

Cut the trolling, Bourdain.

I'm not so convinced. To me they're a little bloated right now. S60, S^3, S^4, Maemo, Harmattan, MeeGo all at the same time? A company that has been backed into a corner cuts the fat and focuses. If anything I see them trying to do more, so no I don't think they've figured it out.

They simply have too many different models of phones. They spend too much time trying to think of what to cripple in which phone to differentiate from another.

They take 1 step forward and 2 steps back:

• E70 has about 20MB of free RAM (crippled by lack of RAM)
• E71 has about 70MB of free RAM (they seemed to have learnt a lesson)
• E72 has about 43MB of free RAM (WTF!!!???!!!)

• E61 has a nice range of characters that can be entered directly from keyboard
• E62 has an even bigger range (almost uses all the available keys)
• E63 drastically REDUCES the range of characters that can be directly entered from the keyboard (WTF, trying to reduce costs by skimping on paint !!!???!!!)

Could this be the beggining of the end of Nokia... i think they have gone the wrong track now for some time and unless they make dramatic changes then for sure they are on the way out.

As for the Yanks.... no comment but agree with the sarcasm here 100%.

This nutty dude in the article doesn't like americans, thinks that Nokia hires too many americans, is disgusted that Nokia is looking for american CEO, and you take that as evidence of Nokia's anti-americanism? Wow. Nice logic there.

You're probably right. I'm attributing that quote's attitude to Nokia when, really, it's from Juhani Risku and his opinions alone. On looking back over it, I don't see anything pointing out that anti-Americanism is coming from Nokia itself.