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The Three Pillars of Nokia Strategy Have All Failed

Posted by Soulskill on from the time-to-reinvest-in-pillar-technology dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:Not like Nokia's other phones were selling by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Because Elop did what was best for Microsoft, not Nokia and wilfully sacrificed all the assets of his own company to benefit his previous one. Why he is not being investigated for breach of fiduciary duty is beyond me.

    I don't buy this argument, because I don't think Elop was a Microsoft mole. I think he is a Windows True Believer.

    People talk about Steve Jobs and his Reality Distortion Field; but I've known Microsofties that believe just as strongly in All Things Windows. They truly believe Windows is the solution to everything, and everything else is an also-ran. They truly think that the world is just waiting for a Microsoft solution to any problem, and as soon as it's released by golly the world is going to flock to it in droves.

    I remember sitting through a talk just before Internet Explorer 7 was released. This was at the point (pre-Chrome even, IIRC) where Firefox was starting to seriously eat into IE's market share. The speaker waxed eloquently on just how great Internet Explorer 7 was going to be, and how Mozilla should consider just folding up shop once the final version was released because no one was going to use Firefox after that point. It wasn't hyperbole - he really believe that.

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    #DeleteChrome
  2. Re:How many more? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Who modded this garbage "Interesting"?

    Elop took over a company that was in a nose dive.

    [citation needed]

    Jumping into the collapsing-profit Android market would have been a recipe for disaster (see: HTC's recent profit reports)

    [citation needed] - (see: Samsung's recent profit reports)

    ...they should have just doubled down on Maemo/Meego/Symbian and made it work," is fucking stupid...

    [citation needed] See the ratio to which the N9 completely outsold the Lose-mobiles. Without marketing, and being excluded from the major markets by Nokia.