Videos: Stephen Elop and Steve Ballmer answers questions (+ Boys II Men on Symbian/MeeGo/Qt/Nokia)
How are you feeling? Are you rested a little after the furore of possibly the biggest change in Nokia’s history where all control of the company’s direction is NOT in their hands.
Here’s a video below when both Steves, Stephen Elop and Steve Ballmer answers questions asked today by the readers of Nokia Conversations (Nokia’s Official Blog). You may have already read what they’ve said before, but there’s something different seeing it from the (trojan) horses’ mouth. :p Oh I joke.
Ballmer defends Nokia’s position as hardware maker, that it is NOT a commody, saying that it part of the reason apple is in the position they’re in is because they innovated hardware as well as software.
More frighteningly, when asked if this was a long term thing or whether this was a bridge until Symbian and MeeGo are ready for mass deployment (which, still now I think would be best case scenario – fix Symbian UI, release MeeGo which is STILL going ahead backed by Intel), Elop says NO. This is a LONG TERM COMMITMENT. They will invest more in lower end, and also investing in future disruptions – WHAT will be the next innovation to ensure they’re leading the NEXT disruption instead of following it.
I love how Ballmer talks. “Monday afterNOOON”. lol. He doesn’t seem like a MS CEO…more kinda crazy, inappropriate uncle.
There’s also another video. If you missed the live stream here’s the Nokia MS press conference. I do like that Elop is a very good speaker. It’s a shame there’s no Finnish twang in the accent. That might be a good thing based on the replies we always see when OPK speaks (sadly, folks do make a dig against foreign-english accents). Accents aside, this is the whole Nokia-MS partnership as it was unveiled to the world. BLACK FRIDAY.
Isn’t it odd, again, if you think about this just 2-3 years back – you’d never say that Elop making a speech today is on “OUR” side.
The ever insightful YouTube comments:
Oh one last video that @_Nexus retweeted from @adonisdemon.
Listen to the lyrics.
- Think of it from Symbian/MeeGo/Qt/Ovi’s perspective, wanting Nokia back.
- Or reverse -
- Or a Nokia fans take on Nokia
how ever way you wanna take it. It’s quite poignant.
End of the Road (for Symbian/MeeGo/Qt) Boys II Men. (Anyone here familiar with the band or are you folks to young for that? ;p)
(spoken)
Girl you know we belong together
I have no time for you to be playing
With my heart like this
You’ll be mine forever baby, you just see (when MS ditches you)
(verse)
We belong together (NOK+ SYM-MEEGO-QT)
And you that I’m right
Why do you play with my head, (burning platform memo)
Why do you play with my mind? (In going with ms?)
Said we’d be forever (NOK+ SYM-MEEGO-QT)
Said it’d never die (NEVER pee in our pants to stay warm?)
How could you love me and leave me (for MS?)
And never say good-bye? (Not even aknowledging displacement of Symbian. Official Nokia blog already hailing wp7 advantages over Symbian)
Girl I can’t sleep at night without holding you tight
Girl, each time I try I just break down and cry
Pain in my head oh I’d rather be dead (MeeGo Stuck with Intel)
Spinnin’ around and around
Chorus:
Although we’ve come to the end of the road
Still I can’t let you go (Bond of Nokia’s own OS solutions, own freedom, denial)
It’s unnatural, you belong to me, I belong to you (MeeGo, Symbian, Qt, Nokia. Recipe for success that was never allowed to be tasted.)
Come to the end of the road
Still I can’t let you go
It’s unnatural, you belong to me, I belong to you
Girl, I know you really love me, (It’s just that there’s someone else now making decisions, despite what you want, Nokia)
You just don’t realize (You didn’t wait, all the years of transitioning was to unfold. It was coming. But you gave up and saddled with someone else)
You’ve never been there before
It’s only your first time
Maybe I’ll forgive you, hmm (we can work it out. Put the old strategy back. MeeGo high end. Symbian mid-low. Qt everywhere.)
Maybe you’ll try
We should be happy together
Forever, you and i
Girl, you love me again like you loved me before
This time I want you to love me much more
This time instead just come to my bed (We have Qt and MeeGo there too)
And baby just don’t let me, don’t let me down
Chorus
(spoken)
Girl I’m here for you
All those times of night when you just hurt me
And just run out with that other fella (how could you go off with MS?)
Baby I knew about it, I just didn’t care
You just don’t understand how much I love you do you?
I’m here for you (Even if you neglect your Symbian, which was created by several manufacturers to resist MS taking control of mobile space, unconditionally, Symbian loves you and will be here for you)
I’m not out to go out and cheat on you all night (It’s always been, Symbian and Nokia)
Just like you did baby but that’s all right
Hey, I love you anyway
And I’m still gonna be here for you ’till my dying day baby (everyone has pronounced Symbian’s death so many times. I would never die when you were there. But now, you’ve signed my death certificate)
Right now, I’m just in so much pain baby (It hurts so bad, even engadget is defending Symbian in that it was only really needing a little facelift.)
Coz you just won’t come back to me (you weren’t just cheating on sYMBIAN with MS, you left Symb for MS)
Will you? just come back to me (So many adoring fans, stockholders and developers agree)
(lonely)
Yes baby my heart is lonely
(lonely)
My heart hurts baby
(lonely)
Yes I feel pain too
Baby please
This time instead just come to my bed
And baby just don’t let me go
UPDATE. Some more Q&A with press:
embedding disabled: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXv69m1XPnY
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LOL:
“everyone has pronounced
Symbian ’s death so many times. I would never die when you were
there. But now, you ’ve signed my death certificate”
will we still get Symbian^3 updates or not ?
Yes, there will be updates. They specifically mentioned that in the conference. Also probably as per AAS,they might be releasing more new S^3 phone(s) at MWC next week.
Before install this “probably” update, we nust take a loft of care, Nokia is not behind it any more, now is MS, and probably an “erroneous” script, cut off funtionality and transform our cell on a brick! and we will need to pay for reactivate it!!
These are so good news! Thank u Nokia! love u <3
The bottom line is that Elop has codemned Nokia for good. There are very few people that have achieved what he is trying to achieve at Nokia by overhauling a company completely. There are many more failures and you are bound to be 1 too. Now depending which way you look at it, you’re a hero to microsoft.
So you call yourself a strategist? You believe that it is in the best interest of Nokia? Lets put it blatantly to you.
1. Firstly, you state that devs can still continue developing software for the current crop of phones in the market and that there’d be new ones? Do you think they are mad? They feel gutted especially considering the time and effort that was put into the projects with the old strategy. In my opinion that was a sure win. You wanted to change something then you should have simply created more ventures in turn around times from a concept to a product. That was the sour points of nokia and nothing else. Be that in hardware or software, that was requiring focus and it was to be a sure win for nokia.
2. You believe that the consumer is going to believe anything coming out of nokia now? I dont think so! There are millions that have lost faith in nokia and that is evident even in your investors confidence too. This is a planned hostile take over and masterlly executed for that matter. Thats it and it sticks to your consumers heads. No need even trying to convince otherwise as we can read between the lines. You state that there would be still support for those that own s^3 devices too yet there are leaks that you have been collaberating with ms for a while now and behold a concept phone too! Already?! I thought the roadmap is like 2 years but clearly it isnt. Soon a wp7 phone would be released and there would also be no support for the current owners of symbian devices too with not many devs left and any that are would just be either finishing off what they started or making the last quick buck. After that they’d jump ship to get a footing in somewhere else. Gone are your customers like me that eagerly awaited your meego device at mwc. Even if is launched you may never support it which is my worst fears and many others. Most have jumped ship and i will too if meego isnt taken on as a priority along with your ms venture.
3. Did you even consider the people that supported nokia let alone your workers? I mean at times brutallity has to happen but not like this! Did you not expect retalliation or wait, maybe you did and wanted that cos your vested interest are still with ms. I great leader would consider 2 things in any business when making huge decisions that being its people and its assets. You didnt give a damn about neither. You created turmoil, stress and uncertainty with your workers while at the same time tossing away ovi, symbian, qt and meego!! The people that made this company would break you in an instant but you knew that would happen and wanted it to!
4. The Kaizen theory states that change should come in a series of small steps with intermittent large steps towards the final goal. Those large steps are your breakthroughs. I would like to ask what happened to these simple rules that large corporates still follow up till today. Your large step was a giant leap and the rule book ripped to shreds! That is why your workers walked out!
5. Kotter states that change needs to come but to make it effective, buy in from the people is of utmost criticallity. Did you even consider this? That is why your people walked out as well! That is why your customers are walking out. Your old strategy was planned perfectly with even the customer considered. All that had to be fixed was the breakthroughs that hardly ever came!
Finally, the good that you’ve done but with the BUT’s:
1. Bringing something refreshing to nokia, but you dropped symbian which was still #1 and making money along with the brilliant qt and your brainchild meego for just the 1 os!? What do you have to fall back on if all fails?
2. Moving opps for things concerning ovi to a decentralised point and almagamating it with wp7. Nice touch, but it was nokias and now?! Handed or should i say gifted it into the clutches of ms! How nice for ms. They scored big time, moreso than nokia. What nokia gets? An ecosystem, yipee!! But we had that with our old strategy! Nokia would save millions cos they dont have to handle or manage ovi anymore.
3. Dropping symbian and meego hence freeing up personel and saving millions in r&d. But nokia owned these and now? Ms owns nokia and dictates what happens from now on. You dont listen then tough, you have nothing to fall back on and when symbian has been completely removed from its history!
3. Getting a office set up in the US. Nice. Teaming up with ms just bought you a piece of the pie in the US. But what about the rest of the world? You sold your soul for the US and lost lots of loyal supporters everywhere else! Sorry that counterweight doesnt balance out with what you’ve lost!
Anyway, bring on meego and release it soon and watch. Millions would support it and please provide the backup etc because it would become your #1 os, not wp7. Its what the nokia community want. Trust me, not wp7.
SENT FROM MY NOKIA N8 THAT ELOP MISLEAD US INTO BELIEVING THAT IT WOULD BE UPDATED AND SUPPORTED BUT AFTER NOKIA BLACK FRIDAY, HE CLEARLY LIED TO US ALL. I HOPE YOU DONT CHOKE FROM THE MILLIONS OF CURSES.
Amazon sells now N8 at 399USD
Germanos stores in greece yesterday gave out an offer with a 100 euro discount for new connections for C7
By the end of Q1 2011 no stock on symbian3 will be in any stores and none of the stores will buy any new ones
By the end of Q2 the economical results of nokia will drop so much that microsoft will buy her off and shut her down
Thousands of finnish people will be laid off
http://www.n8fanclub.com/2011/02/protest-walk-out-by-nokia-workers-on.html
So
I forgave nokia with N97
I forgave nokia with the delay of N8
Will i forgive her know?
NO F>>KING WAY
Let us not forget that nokia took money from the European Union to continue evolving Symbian
but instead she took it in and dismantle it!!
I believe EU should take legal action against nokia!
I also ask the staff that works for nokia to bring the heart of symbian to the excellent modders of the scene
even unfinished projects from nokia will finish in the hands of teams like HX
Nokia didn’t get any money. The symbian foundation did. no?
yes this is correct but who took advantage from these mil?Nokia
and since it is not opensource anymore its as if they put the money in their pockets
Nokia was the single largest contributor to Symbian, so it was only right in this case.
rofl… i was wondering what on earth boyzIImen had to do with this
I was confused when I first read the tweet and when I listened it was like they knew this was coming all along. :p haha.
A newspaper in Finland is writing that Mr. Elop owns a lot of Microsoft stock, but he doesn’t own any Nokia stock.
It seems that Microsoft took control over Nokia without needing to pay anything for it!
Yes, they are reporting that Elop is the 7th biggest invidual owner of MS. Why isn’t everyody concerned about this???
this makes me sick
This has scandal written all over it. Europe get up and fight, otherwise more of your companies(assets) will follow.
+1
Nokia is dead. Elop (Microsoft) killed it on Friday to make money for himself and his MS buddies. Sickening.
Thanks! Jay.
This song sums up all the sorrow inside the heart of a true Nokia fan.
I dont think I will ever be able to buy this nokia windows phone crap.
I will return back to nokia only when they come back to symbian and meego again.
From now on I will be looking forward to hp and the elegant webos.
But I will be regularly visiting this great blog and thanks for keeping it up.
another funny (these days only gallows humour prevents me from getting depressed) song dedicated to microkia:
http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2011/02/my-attempt-at-humor-the-microsoft-song-sung-to-abbas-waterloo.html
microkia ??
i thought it should be miCROOKia !
(as crook=One who makes a living by dishonest methods)
no no, the new name of nokia is NOKROSOFT hihihihihi
right post your sad songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_MKF1osc2c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoBFhdeR9PE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIbepKZC7Po
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebSYPnllFx8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0o8JCxjjpM
Funny i could have taken an internship at Microsoft, but said nah i will start my masters instead which i am doing now. And one of the main things i wanted to do is QT work this summer……….(might still do it but , its alot less positive.)
gf away this weekend , i am about to drink dublin dry with sorrow (its like an Irish past time)
hei
the beautiful and nice webos doesnot get support from skype, this piss me off!
if i want paid apps, i go piracy way
iphone is damn expensive and i hate jailbreaking it and no flash in web and download plugin
still hope for intel continues to improve meego os with others,
My God! It wasn’t a bad dream! I need to drink some more and go back to bed
even support stops!!!!!!!! from day 1
http://dailymobile.se/2011/02/12/rovio-nokia-is-beyond-saving-now/
support? Angry Bird is a game.
Get real you know what i mean
everyone is abandoning the symbian 3 ship
The link says nothing about Rovio to stop launching games for Symbian3
if nokia is not interesgted in or deveoping meego, why keep it, for what, sell to others who are interested in meego
what will skillsman do at nokia from now? any words
I was wondering this same thing. I didn’t see his name on any reports yesterday concerning product development.
Well, they said they would release on MeeGo device later this year. They don’t really need to sell the MeeGo OS because it’s open source. MeeGo still has support from Intel and others, so maybe Intel should hire the employees that are working on MeeGo at Nokia.
It will still be a MeeGo team at Nokia in the future, smaller but still a team:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/02/nokiawebcast-4.pdf-page-32-of-38.jpg
Nokia isn’t going to sell Symbian, Meego, or Qt because they plan on building their closed ecosystem on the backs of their current fan base and anyone else that believes Nokia is an honest, worthwhile company.
They’ll keep stringing us along hoping to drain every last cent they can before they go to Windows Phone.
If they had any respect for their current users they would have insisted Qt goes on WP. They didn’t.
No amount of spin from their marketing department will change that. Realize the truth now, don’t support their regime, support regime change. Don’t buy Nokia products unless you bought plenty of lube.
Maybe snail mail flood these dumb-fraks.
Nokia Board of Directors / Complaint
Nokia Corporation
P O Box 226
00045 Nokia Group
Finland
Hey guys. Sign a petition here.
http://getsatisfaction.com/nokia/topics/petition_to_nokia_reconsider_meego_as_strategic_platform#
Done.
I for one will not support Microsoft by supporting Nokia’s current products.
They f’d us hard on this one folks. We can keep trying to justify their maneuvers, but you can’t explain away what they just did to their current consumers and fans.
Microsoft controls Nokia now that Mr. Elop became the new CEO. This would not have happened with OPK and Anssi leading the company.
Nokia as we knew it is now gone.
Nokia = Microsoft
Perhaps we can still save them, by gasp, accelerating the downward spiral of their bottom line.
They need to know we won’t support this regime. Don’t purchase any Nokia products until Elop and all of Microsoft’s cronies are gone.
Tweet it, Facebook it, blog it, snail mail, or just spread the word the good old fashion way.
If Mubarak can be kicked to the curb, so can Elop.
So you do not buy Symbian devices because they intend to move to WP7.
It was the stupidest thing I’ve heard. If Symbian sells poorly, they become convinced of course to close symbian and go for WP7 is the right decision.
It’s WP7 products you not should buy, just buy the Meego mobile.
First entered Nokia heart the Trojan horse, and the Trojan horse give rebirth to even larger Trojan horse and already named Steve Balmer, and they’ll bring the all needed Microsoft warms and millions of viruses to nokia, and all this is called the “repeated history, now on palm of your hand”.
This are big hungry Trojan horses we might ever imagine, but in public they play “hungry donkey for carrots” talking about their dream how they together will put all the world on their hand because they are so hunger for money, but this guys are just big dreamers, and as son as nokia is realizing is losing wast of costumers, then they will week-up but maybe will be to late, because they should have known already, there in market is already Win7 phones and almost no buddy is interested in this kind of devices, and if they think just because is nokia people will bay them like milk on shop…well the answer is NO!
Nokia is loser on this game..!
I can’t say I liked hearing the news yesterday. I’ve been a Nokia fan for many years. I’ve owned a 6200, 6682, N95-3, N95-8, N79 and now an N900. I can’t say enough good things about their hardware. It’s like carrying a digital Swiss army knife. And the cameras. The majority of the pictures that I’ve taken since purchasing my N95 3-4 years ago have been with my Nokia phones. My fiancee’s N79 takes such good photos, she won’t even consider purchasing another brand. The N8 was going to be an update for her, but depending on how things shake out, we may pass. Though you’ll probably be able to get them for a song shortly. Nokias are always a sizable investment, but in my mind, completely worth it.
As to Symbian. It needed a face lift. I feel it never really got the one it needed. It’s rock solid. You have access to the file system, which for me is one of the most important features in a phone. No syncing BS. Plug your phone in and move your files. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve used and needed this. USB OTG is AWESOME. Add to that mouse and keyboard support.
WP7. I hate to say it, but for the reputation of Nokia’s hardware, I’m willing to give it a chance. I really think Nokia did what it had to do to survive. I’m thinking things must be a little worse than most people know. They seem to be able to keep things under wraps, even better than apple.
Nokia has been around since 1865. They’ve made paper, electricity, rubber products, cables and many other products. They’ve survived wars and bankruptcy. They’ll make it though this.
Sorry for the rant.
but ultimately elop sold it to microsoft.so nokia is no more an independent company.the news will come up in 1 or 2 months
UNDOUBTEDLY conspiracy has been played by Steve balmer and stephen elop to dismantle NOKIA.
IT WAS A LONG DREAM OF MS TO ACQUIRE NOKIA
AMERICANS ARE NOT DIGESTING THE FACT THAT HOW A NON-AMERICAN WAS ABLE TO THRIVE SUCCESS FOR 20YEARS IN MOBILE INDUSTRY
I JUST THINKING THAT “NOKIA PUT AXE ON HIS OWN FOOT” BY APPOINTING STEPHEN ELOP AS THE CEO OF NOKIA”
STEPHEN ELOP-BIGGEST HOAXER IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND
“BIGGEST BLUNDER” AND “BRUTAL” IN THE HISTORY OF BUSINESS THAT TOOK PLACE ON “UNFORGETTABLE 11 FEB 2011″
I’m frustated.end of 150years of stalwart NOKIA
ha ha ha ha ha it’s all politics at Nokia now.
many nokia fans/lovers were baptised inton Adroid community yesterday after Stephen Elop revealed his political Identity,
Symbian is on a death path now.
Even if Nokia releases a MeeGo phone it’s likely not 2 get support in the long-run.
I was 1 strong Nokia fan but after yesterday I had 2 jump 2 another boat – Intel.Intel is my only option now and they have re-assured us of their commitment 2 MeeGo,and are having many big players like BMW,AMD.
RIP Nokia & Microsoft.
I’ll be get my next phone from Intel with Medfield SoC running MeeGo.
intel meego support is 0 without hanset makers. they will probably go with meego for IVI since they can sell a lot of chips to car makers.
Jay. Did you pinch my name for the day as ‘Black Friday’ from my twitter feed?
http://twitter.com/robwigley
WHO IS THE OWNER OF NOKIA AND NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORK NOW???
IS CURRENT CHAIRMAN JORMI OLLILA IS THE OWNER OF NOKIA.
Nokia owns 50% NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS. Jorma Ollila is the chairman of the board of directors. He certainly owns some of Nokia’s stock shares but he is not a major one.
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Major+Nokia+shareholder+keeps+low+profile+/1135225431460
Alex68 nice to see you, you give some sort of weird Nokia calm here
Did you know about this with Microsoft before, if so, how early?
I seem to remember that you were slightly negative after the interim report.
I heard the rumor from different sources about at the end of year 2010. In Q4 report, when Elop mentioned to join an ecosystem, something like this, it confirmed the rumor for me. But Rant didn’t agree with me when we had a little debate about it.
However, I underestimated It. Is was not just to adopt WP7 as an ALTERNATIVE, but a total switch. The whole strange thing is how the hell Elop, the board and executives all look like SO CLUELESS. They were going to announce the death of Symbian, how could they still hope that Nokia will sell 150M Symbian phones in coming years …
I can basically say Nokia’s problem is people’s problem, a problem that management team just sucks and screwed Nokia’s business opportunities totally…
MS os and ecosytem can not save Nokia at all unless Nokia’s heavy structural problems are solved. If Nokia’s structural
problems are solved, Nokia did not need to make the move to MS at all. I don’t see any clue that Elop has grasped the problem at all.
In my eyes, Nokia’s fate is pretty clear to me already…
Actually what I wanted to hear last Friday was Nokia’s aggressive restructure plan first plus an announcement of a deeper alliance with MS…
Without solving the structural problems, nothing can save Nokia. Apparently Elop did not get it or was not interested to do it at all…
The end result we have seen was really terrible that Elop just simply sold out Nokia to MS without Nokia’s getting anything left…
I believe that this was the plan all along. Elop and Ballmer likely discussed all of this before he started working for Nokia. They saw a great opportunity for Microsoft and they took it without hesitation.
Nokia = Microsoft now.
Nokia was struggling with software, so they were looking for a CEO that understands software. Someone who could turn Nokia into a great software company. So they hired someone from Microsoft, the biggest software company in the world. This turned out to be a big mistake. Elop had no interest in helping Nokia become excellent at software. Instead he decided to throw out the software and turn Nokia into a hardware manufacturer for Microsoft. Is this the kind of software expert Nokia was looking for?
When we think about this now, it all makes perfect sense. How could we expect that a Microsoft guy would start supporting Linux and open source etc?
Nokia insider holding info
http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia/corporate-governance/insiders-ownership
I would like to email them and ask if they are happy now.
There is no major stock holder on nokia, sadly.
NOKIA THE WORLD FAMOUS MOBILE COMPANY FOR 20 YEARS HAS SEEN SUCH A DISASTROUS RESULT YESTERDAY THAT EVEN THE DEVIL IN OUR NIGHTMARES WILL NOT DO THINGS LIKE STEPHEN ELOP DID.
Intel kept in the dark over Nokia’s MeeGo plans; operators reject first device
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/02/12/intel-kept-in-the-dark-over-nokia%E2%80%99s-meego-plans-operators-reject-first-device/
This was interesting in the link:
“well-placed sources also tell us that the device won’t feature the stock MeeGo UI but instead one designed by “a three person external team rather than any of Nokia’s hundreds of internal designers.” It could be announced as early as tomorrow at Mobile World Congress.”
I personally think it is still possible to reverse the deal.
Before Nokia’s annually general meeting, Nokia’s employees, shareholders, consumers and subcontractors all should act together to press and influence the BoD to reject Elop’s strategy plan with MS and to oust Elop from Nokia.
Elop was hired for his expertise in Software to lead Nokia to overcome the difficulties to become a software company. But Elop is going to turn Nokia into a hardware company living on pathetic margin of hardware like Chinese ZTE (specializing in making clones) or American Dell for PCs …
There will be no future for Nokia at all if Elop get a green light to continue his plan to destroy Nokia.
Nokia product’s delivery problem lies in management team competent and overlapping structural problem.
Nokia needs a talent whose expertise is in restructure and software, and is able to lead Nokia to go through the difficult time. Switching to another platform doesn’t solve’s the root problems in Nokia but effectively kills Nokia.
I really hope we as Nokia’s fans together can do something to save Nokia!
Current board memebers
http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia/corporate-governance/insiders-ownership
Elop is going to join the BoD after next GM on May 3, 2011. If we don’t do anything to prevent this happening, Nokia death days can be counted …
Should we contact the board?
http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia/corporate-governance/contact-us/contact-the-board
IT WAS MORE SENSIBLE FOR ELOP TO GIVE LAST CHANCE TO SYMBIAN AND ADOPT WP7 FOR US MARKET ONLY & MEEGO AS ITS ULTIMATE OS AND NEW POLICY AND METHOD OF WORKING TO ACHIEVE COMPANY GOAL IN FUTURE
-QT IS THE BEST TOOL TO INTEGRATE APP FOR SYMBIAN,MEEGO,ANDROID ETC.
-symbian is slower than ios and android but s^3 was on the verge of whole new UI S^4 like maemo 5
-ovi store getting 4million download per day.
-ships 28.5m handset in q4 of 2010
-still no.1 and largest handset maker in 2010 and way ahead of apple,htc,bb etc.
-symbian remains the most popular os in 2010
-there were meagre losses in Q4 of 2010.
-users likes s^3 UI far better than s^1.
-MEEGO is the best os ever made even praise by google that meego is better than android.
-everyone was waiting for meego phone.
-spent $3.9 billion in R&D for symbian,meego,qt.
-s^3 n8,c7,c6-01 sells 5million device and wp7 only 1.5 m device.
-wp7 do not have basic smartphones functions.
-during his first few days he said”qt,symbian,meego is the ultimate ecosystem for nokia.they will not switch to 3rd party os” but after 4 months he suddenly change his mind and ditch everything and embrace wp7 and make nokia like htc,samsung,etc.this raise question on the credibility of nokia
DESPITE KNOWING THESE SUPERB FACTS
“EVEN A STUPID PERSON CAN SELECT SYMBIAN,MEEGO ,QT IN 2011 STRATEGY”
BUT HE ADOPTS WP7 AS A “PRIMARY OS” DITCHING SYMBIAN,QT AND EVEN THE MEEGO.
NOW IT CLEARLY PROVES “HE IS A BLACK SHEEP,TROJAN HORSE”
OMG !!!! What about my symbian 3 ?! i still didn’t get my f**** PR 1.1 update for my phone does anyone know when update hits US ?…I still can’t believe this what a fuking shame !!!!