Former Nokia Exec: Windows Phone Strategy Doomed

On 03/21/2012 10:18 PM, Hardon wrote:

<http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12...doomed>

<quote>
"Slashdot readers will recall that back in January, Nokia CEO Steven
Elop blamed the company's Windows Phone woes on commission-minded
salespeople, who pushed phones they thought would actually sell. Now,
ex-Nokia exec Tomi Ahonen, is calling the Nokia's Windows Phone
strategy 'a certain road to death.' He bases this grim assessment on
UK market shares from Kantar Worldpanel: 'When Nokia shifted from "the
obsolete" Symbian to "the awesome" Windows Phone, Nokia lost a third
of its customers! In just one quarter!' Can MeeGo or Tizen save Nokia
now?"
</quote>

Elop's comment was a classic that will be fitting for Nokia's epitaph.

Well I am just wondering why did they not hire me as a CEO.
I would have not been able to destroy Nokia so fast, as would have not
any other village idiot :-)

I am not saying that Elop is an idiot. He destroyed Nokia for a purpose.
I fail to see why though.


Kari

Hardon wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

<http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12...doomed>

<quote>
"Slashdot readers will recall that back in January, Nokia CEO Steven
Elop blamed the company's Windows Phone woes on commission-minded
salespeople, who pushed phones they thought would actually sell. Now,
ex-Nokia exec Tomi Ahonen, is calling the Nokia's Windows Phone
strategy 'a certain road to death.' He bases this grim assessment on
UK market shares from Kantar Worldpanel: 'When Nokia shifted from "the
obsolete" Symbian to "the awesome" Windows Phone, Nokia lost a third
of its customers! In just one quarter!' Can MeeGo or Tizen save Nokia
now?"
</quote>

Elop's comment was a classic that will be fitting for Nokia's epitaph.

Also fitting:

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate
because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he
can understand.
-Bertrand Russell

Ambiguity:
Telling the truth when you don't mean to.

Kari Laine pretended :

On 03/21/2012 10:18 PM, Hardon wrote:

<http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12...doomed>

<quote>
"Slashdot readers will recall that back in January, Nokia CEO
Steven
Elop blamed the company's Windows Phone woes on commission-minded
salespeople, who pushed phones they thought would actually sell.
Now,
ex-Nokia exec Tomi Ahonen, is calling the Nokia's Windows Phone
strategy 'a certain road to death.' He bases this grim assessment
on
UK market shares from Kantar Worldpanel: 'When Nokia shifted from
"the
obsolete" Symbian to "the awesome" Windows Phone, Nokia lost a
third
of its customers! In just one quarter!' Can MeeGo or Tizen save
Nokia
now?"
</quote>

Elop's comment was a classic that will be fitting for Nokia's
epitaph.

Well I am just wondering why did they not hire me as a CEO.
I would have not been able to destroy Nokia so fast, as would have
not any other village idiot :-)

I am not saying that Elop is an idiot. He destroyed Nokia for a
purpose. I fail to see why though.


Kari

Kari - you might be interested in this:
http://wmpoweruser.com/windows-phon...atcounter/

LOL.

Tom Shelton

Verily I say unto thee that Kari Laine spake thusly:

I am not saying that Elop is an idiot. He destroyed Nokia for a purpose.
I fail to see why though.

Nokia is the world's biggest phone manufacturer, by a huge margin. If
Microsoft's strategy had worked then it would have become the world's
biggest smartphone vendor by proxy. If it fails (as everyone seems to
think it will) then Microsoft will have destroyed Nokia, thus keeping
it from Microsoft's enemies (everyone else). IOW "If I can't have it,
then no one else can either". It's the narcissists creed.

"[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
make sure that you don't make any money, either." ~ Bob Cringely.
http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/...he-un.html

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http://slated.org | and blood within this cloak to kill. There is
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Homer wrote:

Nokia is the world's biggest phone manufacturer, by a huge margin.

But, I've read, largely because they dominate the low-end of the
market.