The New Nokia: Elop's Nokia ...
The main point of the message was not the stock PPS but the horrible performance of Nokia's CEO. IMO, the fact that HTC and Samsung can built WP7 and Android phones (and for Samsung even a 3rd OS with Bada phones), but a company of Nokia's size can not, is costing Nokia dearly. So I posted the message in the hope that we can have a discussion of why that is..- sylvester80 -
Syl,
Thank you for a good and well articulated post and I was pleased to be 1st to recommend it. It would also have passed muster and earned my rec on the SI Nokia Corp board founded by Puck a dozen years ago that I have moderated since 2005 and where I generally make Nokia specific posts, sometimes cross linking but it is equally appropriate for this board. The non-rhetorical questions are worthwhile and I'll attempt to respond to them with a combination of personal opinion and fact to the best of my ability in a follow on post to this one later this weekend.
First however I'll link back to a very worthwhile submission you made here in June ("Nokia Windows Phones to be announced on October 26?" by damaster) and quote the author's closing paragraph ...
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... it won't be easy for Microsoft and Nokia this Christmas, as they're up against Apple’s iOS5 and a possible iPhone 5 this September, as well as Google’s Android Ice Cream Sandwich in Q4. There’s quite a bit of work to do for Microsoft and Nokia, but looking at the hardware quality of the recently announced Nokia N9 running Meego, I’ d say they’re quite in the game.
At the conscious risk of being repetitive I'll requote the highly embedded systems literate editor of Vulture Central, much despised by what he used to refer to with tongue in cheek as "the nutball fringe of Qualcomm headbangers" an appellation that perfectly suited and still suits them when he was "The Register's" man in San Fran and also referring to Microsoft as "The Beast from Redmond" and Ballmer as "Uncle Fester" because of his resemblance to him ...
Pundits this week are describing Nokia's fall from grace as one of the greatest corporate car-crashes of all time. But here's an unfashionable view. Nokia's problem is not Stephen Elop, or his strategy. Its problem is it didn't have Stephen Elop, or his strategy, in place two years ago. And while we are certainly watching a dramatic destruction of shareholder value – this will be a terrible year for Nokia – it's worth remembering that three bad quarters are not necessarily fatal to a company. - Andrew Orlowski. June 21, 201
Back on Monday. August 1 you asked me some similar questions here to some of those you asked again today, leading off with ...
"If Samsung can do WP7, Bada and Android, and do them all well, why can't Nokia? Why is Nokia in a all or nothing move with the WP7??? ..."
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... and I'll try to incorporate responses to those as well in my follow up post.
I was unable to respond to those back then. As noted here the prior day I was just departing for walkabout. Unfortunately all my August walking took place in the corridors of UPenn Hospital's cardio floor after undergoing 8 hours of rather complex open heart surgery and it was my 1st overnight hospital stay or surgery since a tonsillectomy at age 3. I was asymptomatic, until April had never had to take a prescription med other than an occasional antibiotic as an adult, fortunately have never had a heart attack or stroke (although I was obviously a walking candidate for one), and the surgery which did not require any bypasses or a stent and which had been scheduled 3 months prior, was extremely successful according to the dynamic UPenn cardio department head who performed it with his team. The heart itself was completely overhauled and I'm fine thank you, probably upon reflection in the best physical shape I've enjoyed in the last 30+ years. I'm back to walking several miles a day, swimming several times a week, spending time in the gym, and looking forward to getting back to golfing and playing racquetball and hoops this coming spring. The single apparent downside to all this is that I'll be taking Coumadin (Warfarin) blood thinner the rest of my life or until Pradaxa or another more modern replacement is qualified and that's necessitated by a Medtronic mechanical aortic valve that goes click not 'moo' was inserted while the mitral valve was repaired. Sorry to bore you with all that personal detail, but it saves repeating it again to those SI regulars that wondered where I disappeared to and queried me by PM.
Enjoy your weekend,
- Eric - |
