Nokia Plan B Was Just a Hoax

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 17, 2011 @01:04AM from the break-out-plan-c dept.

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."

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Strange hoax by Warwick+Allison · 2011-02-17 01:09 · Score: 5, Funny

It was well-informed and humorless. Very Nokia.
Re:Why was this story even news to begin with? by Rakshasa+Taisab · 2011-02-17 01:31 · Score: 5, Insightful

It got around the tech sites cause it was so obviously a much better idea than Nokia Plan A...
Doesn't matter if it was a hoax or not, they would do well to heed it.

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An oxymoron by Kludge · 2011-02-17 01:47 · Score: 5, Insightful

'one very bored engineer who really likes his iPhone.'

An engineer who is
1. bored
2. likes iPhones?
Does not sound like much of an engineer.