Nokia Plan B Was Just a Hoax

suraj.sun writes "There's been a lot of chatter about a 'Nokia Plan B' over the past 48 hours — the site was put up by nine young investors who outlined an audacious plan to rally shareholders, get themselves elected onto Nokia's board, and radically change the company's direction by firing Stephen Elop and committing massive resources to MeeGo. There's just one problem, though: the nine young investors don't really exist — according to the last tweet on the @NokiaPlanB Twitter account, it was all a hoax perpetuated by 'one very bored engineer who really likes his iPhone.' Ouch. That explains why the now-defunct site abruptly gave up the cause this morning after just 36 hours of existence."

Comments

Strange hoax

[Warwick Allison]

It was well-informed and humorless. Very Nokia.

Re:Strange hoax

[piripiri]

Fortunately the press validated the information before publishing. Oh wait...

Re:You mean...

[naz404]

oh, and Nokia Plan S:

Do:

Nokia Plan A, Nokia Plan B, Nokia Plan C, Nokia Plan D, Nokia Plan E, Nokia Plan ES, Nokia Plan ET, Nokia Plan F, Nokia Plan G, Nokia Plan H, Nokia Plan I, Nokia Plan J, Nokia Plan K, Nokia Plan L, Nokia Plan M, Nokia Plan O, Nokia Plan P, Nokia Plan Q, Nokia Plan R, Nokia Plan S, Nokia Plan T, Nokia Plan V, Nokia Plan W, Nokia Plan X, Nokia Plan XP, Nokia Plan Y, Nokia Plan Z, Nokia Plan 0, Nokia Plan 2, Nokia Plan 5, Nokia Plan 9, Nokia Plan 10

Profit!

Re:spent to align

[TaoPhoenix]

Why did they have to spend much at all?

Microsoft: "Put Windows Phone on your handsets."
Nokia: "We'd rather not..."
Microsoft: "Sudo put Windows on your handsets."
Nokia: "Okay."

Costs:
License rights to XKCD
Buying Randall Munroe lunch and a free phone
Replacing Ballmer's Chair

Re:You mean...

[Archangel Michael]

In related news, HP plans to release a special "Facebook Edition" of the WebOS phone, to be called "Face Palm".