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Worst CEO Ever

Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, July 14 2012 @ 08:59 PM EDT

I don't understand how it got past Nokia's board. Producing a WP7 phone isn't
necessarily a bad idea - IMO at least it's a pretty good phone OS and the more
competitive options in this area the better, although I know I'll get argument
on that here.

But why throw away everything else? What possible reason (for Nokia at least)
was there to *not* also pursue Meego or Android? History has some rather
important lessons about what happens when you let MS have too much control and
they needed a hit phone far more than they needed immediate cost reductions.

The burning platform thing was just unbelievable too. How to kill a company by
Elop:

Step 1: very publicly announce your entire product line is dead a year out from
having any replacements.

Step 2: do it again (or have it done by MS) a few months after releasing said
new product.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Follow the money? - Authored by: jjs on Sunday, July 15 2012 @ 08:15 AM EDT
Worst CEO Ever - Authored by: Wol on Sunday, July 15 2012 @ 08:31 AM EDT

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