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The Three Pillars of Nokia Strategy Have All Failed
An anonymous reader writes "'When all 3 legs of your 3-legged strategy fail, what do you do? You rush — run run run — to change your total strategy. But what would a madman do?' Ex-Nokia exec Tommi Ahonen's new article has a few suggestions. Is the Nokia board either asleep at the wheel, or incompetent, or in collusion with the incompetent CEO? Ahonen provides an insider's view not just of how Nokia's Windows phone strategy has failed, but how this has spread to other parts of the company's technology. He says the 'Elop Effect' has 'single-handedly destroyed [...] Europe's biggest tech giant.' He raises the question: Why is Nokia's board failing to act? We've discussed Tommi's articles before, where he was correctly predicting Windows Phone's market failure at a point where others were claiming that 'the Lumia line is, in fact, selling quite nicely.'"
If just Nokia had a single mind, either for failure or success. But they build something great and then destroy it in the next breath as a norm. They had something maybe not perfect, but with full of potential, with the N900. Then they crippled it (making it with a lot of closed parts, not giving it enough main memory, etc), not going after all markets, and then called it a failure and killed it. They had Symbian, the next generation, they got Meego with the very innovative user interface of the N9, and when they got both ready to take over the world, basically declared both platform dead. Announced Meltemi, and killed it before releasing any product with it. Those where their own winning cards, along with their hardware what could put them forward than the rest.
Even those efforts, with mostly open software, could had leveraged their hardware offer, if they published enough specification on their hardware to have drivers to enabling them for alternate operating systems (nitdroid, cyanogen mod port, webos, meego, etc), or even push forward the groups trying to giving new uses to their phones giving them the specs, help and support to do so.
And they closed the door to Android, that have a very healthy ecosystem, because they would lose the control, and instead they gave that control to Microsoft, a company with a lengthy record of stabbing partners in the back (and exactly that, unsurprisely, did with Nokia declaring that the windows 8 won't run in any of the then just released Nokia windows phones.
Just amazing to me what a pile of shit heads are gathered spewing nonsense. You buttholes for brain will see how Windows Phone 8 shine and push up Nokia. Just amazing the level of hatered displayed here. Get a life