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Lots of bogus advice and lots of weird insider trading. This
wasn't a request for advice; (and I have no intention to buy or sell Nokia based
on any discussion here) I kind of assume that if I don't already know the
secrets then I'm not ready to gamble on the stock markets. However, if you take
the opposite view. That the stock markets reflect insider information and
manipulation that you don't know about, then the stock market can be a very
interesting place to learn about the world.
Windows 8 is a catastrophe.
Nokia has plenty of cash to develop a new Android based phone. That phone would
be a success and everybody knows it. The only thing which is holding
Nokia back is that Elop is holding them to Windows 8. Now, we all know the
generality of why Elop is going to fight Android. He is Microsoft's man. Maybe
it's loyalty; maybe it's money. In the end it doesn't matter.
What matters
is that the Nokia board, a group of people each of whom are criminally liable to
hold the shareholder's interests are acting directly against the shareholder's
interests by allowing Elop to continue. It is very difficult to imagine that
every single one of them was bought by Microsoft. Explain this, and you explain
much of the power that Microsoft has over IT. I think it's a mix; some bought,
some convinced and some looking for the bottom line. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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