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| Authored by: odysseus on Thursday, June 14 2012 @ 08:54 AM EDT |
Sadly it appears the Meltimi project team in Ulm is one of the victims of the
cuts. If this is true, along with the sacking of the VP running the Feature
Phone division who strongly supported the Meltimi and Qt projects, it appears
Nokia has abandoned any attempts to build any phones other than Windows based
ones.
While the Qt team is still intact, it can only now be a matter of time before
Nokia seeks to cut them too, hopefully selling the unit off rather than just
firing them.
Thank goodness we got Open Governance implemented in time, hopefully we can get
Qt5 out the door before Nokia pulls the plug and Qt has to find its own way in
the world.
John.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 14 2012 @ 10:34 AM EDT |
Are we seeing the outcome of what many predicted would be the result of the MS
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| Authored by: nsomos on Thursday, June 14 2012 @ 11:14 AM EDT |
It was blindingly obvious to some, what a BAD idea it was for Nokia
to hitch their wagon to the Windows black hole. Now Nokia is paying
the price for this mistake.
One common approach to encountering problems, is to just keep trying
the same thing, but with more force. This can be due to stubbornness,
or stupidity, or following the orders of a puppet master.
I predict, that no amount of trying harder with Windows will do ANYTHING
to help Nokia improve their situation.
There are times when you have dug yourself into a hole, that the smartest
thing to do, is to STOP DIGGING. More digging just makes the hole bigger
and deeper. The longer Nokia keeps digging, the worse it will be for them.
While it will not be easy, it may be possible to recover from this foolishness.
The longer Nokia waits to take corrective action, the worse things will be,
and the less the chance of success.
The worst thing they could do, is to destroy those parts of the company
working on alternatives to Windows. This would be like committing suicide
by cutting a hole in your head, and then scooping out your own brains.
While thousands and 10's of thousands will lose their jobs, I am confident
that Elop himself will not be out of a job. Even if Nokia gets smart and
gets rid of Elop, I am confident that MS will take him back and reward him.
Some excuses will be made as to how this was not the fault of Elop, but that
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| Authored by: TB on Thursday, June 14 2012 @ 12:57 PM EDT |
Let me start off right up front by saying that I work for
Nokia in a division that is not adversely impacted by today's news.
Let me also
affirm that everything I write is my own opinion, not necessarily
the corporate
line.
Consider what you would do in Nokia's position. I
felt at the time (and wrote
here accordingly) that the decision to go to WP7
was the best one available, and I still feel that way. Now that I have a Lumia
900, I can comfortably say it is superior to
any previous Nokia
smartphone, and I've had a few (one of the
perks of working for a phone
manufacturer).
The Lumia hardware is awesome, but what makes it such a
great phone is its
overall usability and functionality. Symbian
smartphones
were never this good, not even close.
Now, I can't say whether
this strategy will work as well as we hope, but I can
say that I still see it
as by far the most promising
one for Nokia. Along the way some activities are
being sidelined that have
upset no small number of constituencies, but from a
business standpoint they've been the right decisions to make.
I
understand the sour taste people have in their mouths about MS, I have
tasted
it myself on a number of occasions, but to
suggest that Nokia, or its CEO, is a
pawn of MS is laughable inside and
outside of Nokia. Some of you will go on
assuming the
worst, but perhaps some will look at it from the perspective of a
business
providing products on an open market where the
customers absolutely
do not care what makes it work. They
care about price and features,
and you'd be hard
pressed to find a comparable combination on the market
today.
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I'm a pragmatist, not a zealot - I didn't come here for a
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| Authored by: charlie Turner on Thursday, June 14 2012 @ 08:39 PM EDT |
Just saw an article on Google > News > Business that had a very prophetic
comment from an analyst in 2002. The last sentence says: " You are
Microsoft's slaves. Get used to it."
When I try to post the link here, I get a link expired when I click on the link
in preview... Not sure how to fix that, but here's the url:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303822204577465771376539532.html
Maybe it will work for you with direct entry into the address bar. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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