That's a remarkable piece...
Note, I'm not saying what it's a remarkable piece of...
I don't have any quibbles with firing Elop, of course. Whether they opt to change strategies or not, Elop has already "stepped on it" and "stepped in it" in so many ways that the "worst CEO in history" tag seems likely to stick.
But, the rest ? The piece appears to validate that the carriers are, with the full knowledge of the industry observers, operating an flagrantly illegal conspiracy to obviate free market function... in order to prevent consumers from having the benefit of the full function of the devices that they're buying.
Talk about missing the elephant in the room.
Two aspects worth mentioning, beyond that...
One, is that is appears it is MSFT and not NOK who are being targeted by the anti-competitive behavior of the carriers, who seem, somehow, to have appointed themselves as "the channel"... even though there appears to be no rational reason that should ever happen in a free market... and the input here is that perhaps all NOK has to do to "succeed"... is to rejoin the club participating in the conspiracy, and if they join in the effort to harm consumers... they'll suddenly find their products are "acceptable" again ? Of course, the article avoids that issue by making it "about Elop"... even when that very specific issue clearly isn't "about Elop" ? If you were to admit that that is not "about Elop"... then, you might have to admit who and what it is about ?
The other is that the subversion operated by the conspiracy of the carriers... appears even to have corrupted the critics... as you see here, with a vociferous NOK critic... who makes the error of thinking that it IS and SHOULD BE the carriers who are NOK's customers... and not CONSUMERS ?
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