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2016-08-16
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Originally Posted by ka9yhd
I traced the slashdot article back, and indeed it seems the whole thing is filled with inaccuracies and plain errors.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/0...phone-business
Nokia never "sold itself to microsoft", only the mobile devices division.
Pekka Rantala has been hired by HMD, not Nokia.
Nokia has only licensed its name to HMD, it is not going to make mobile phones.
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2016-08-16
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Can't we ask that guy to help us retrieving Maemo sources? 
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2016-08-16
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No point in trying to make Nokia great again for the very same reason As US cant be great again.
Coperation is key an neither of them seems to understand that, time will tell...but a keyboard slider would be cool
Last edited by Dave999; 2016-08-16 at 12:13.
Coperation is key an neither of them seems to understand that, time will tell...but a keyboard slider would be cool
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2016-08-16
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Originally Posted by ka9yhd
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Nokia really started to go downhill after it agreed to sell itself to Microsoft at the end of 2013, going all in with Windows Mobile. When that faltered, "Microsoft folded Nokia into its mobile business, maintaining the Finnish company's brand on feature phones, while offering up smartphones under the newly integrated Microsoft Lumia line," reports TechCrunch. In May of this year, Microsoft sold its feature phone business to Foxconn for $350 million. At around the same time, Nokia essentially licensed its brand to Finnish company HMD global Oy to create phones under the Nokia name, "which would be manufactured and distributed by Foxconn." Now, TechCrunch is reporting that Nokia has hired Pikka Rantala, the once CEO of Angry Birds creator Rovio, who stepped down in 2015 after a rough year with the mobile gaming company. He will be joining the company as Chief Marketing Officer.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/0...phone-business
AFAIK nokia was downhill before Microsoft mess.
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Originally Posted by HtheB
Somebody's asking the right questions here.
Can't we ask that guy to help us retrieving Maemo sources?
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2016-08-16
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Originally Posted by gerbick
Nice question that'd merit a good answer, but...
Originally Posted by HtheBSomebody's asking the right questions here.Can't we ask that guy to help us retrieving Maemo sources?
unfortunately he couldn't help you with that.
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Originally Posted by mikecomputing
I can't even say that... That "downhill" turned to cliff jumping when Mircosoft became. Where i know? I did work there
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AFAIK nokia was downhill before Microsoft mess.
. Maemo/Meego was next step, but Symbian people start war with it... and rest you know...For this thread -> I don't give **** If Nokia makes comeback. We should support Jolla or Ubuntu phone (hate that back button top left corner) and silently drop couple tears for Meego
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Originally Posted by Makeclick
War is never good. Symbian was never good. On the other hand maemo/symbian was still lost...when Apple and Google made their moves.
I can't even say that... That "downhill" turned to cliff jumping when Mircosoft became. Where i know? I did work there
For this thread -> I don't give **** If Nokia makes comeback. We should support Jolla or Ubuntu phone (hate that back button top left corner) and silently drop couple tears for Meego
So it started years before that when nokia didnt understood the future...
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2016-08-16
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Originally Posted by Dave999
Apple/Android didn't kill Nokia, Symbian did.
War is never good. Symbian was never good. On the other hand maemo/symbian was still lost...when Apple and Google made their moves.
So it started years before that when nokia didnt understood the future...
https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/0...phone-business