How a single man destroyed a multi-billion dollar company in record time

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Stephen Elop is the backdoor trojan horse being injected by Microsoft into Nokia, so as he can destroy it and bring it to the pocket of Microsoft for cheap :D
 
The same thing happened to BB. The same thing is happening to HTC (Android, a platform with razor thin profit margins unless your name happens to be Samsung). Why blame him? WP is the only thing differentiating Nokia from the Android peasants.
 
letmein said:
The same thing happened to BB. The same thing is happening to HTC (Android, a platform with razor thin profit margins unless your name happens to be Samsung). Why blame him? WP is the only thing differentiating Nokia from the Android peasants.
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I feel Nokia with its design can live without WP. But WP without Nokia is dead. Well I don't understand why the Nokia Board of Directors have allowed to happen like this in first place. I also feel its Nokia initial arrogance to change from the competition from Apple IOS came to this situation. IF they would have wakeup samsung would not have grown so much in android world. They should have focussed on Meego and also should have released handsets with multiple OS to cater different set of people, atleast that would have kept them safe instead of going out into other hands.
 
Just 2 decisions would had saved nokia.That was going for touch interface and android.And the reason now is too sure to guess.
 
letmein said:
The same thing happened to BB. The same thing is happening to HTC (Android, a platform with razor thin profit margins unless your name happens to be Samsung). Why blame him? WP is the only thing differentiating Nokia from the Android peasants.
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If nokia had made an android phone, they would have been in the place of samsung. Nokia had a huge market share and no one can deny they missed the smartphone race. An android offering would have put them on leadership. Samsung could never have climbed to the top if nokia stayed ahead of the curve.

Even if they wanted to differentiate, they could have gone the route of producing both android and windows phones (on identical hardware) and then re-align later based on which platform brought them good profit (something that samsung still does, even as leaders in android, they are always keeping alternatives ready). But it was obvious that microsoft did not want that and they tied down nokia (through the trojan horse) with contracts and in turn offering money

Google's operating model is completely different from microsoft. They can afford to give anything (incl hardware) dirt cheap and later get the revenue from ads. But microsoft needs to sell devices with pretty good margin to sustain profitability. Apple on the other hand has its own following and can pocket insane margins on its devices without much trouble. Microsoft has neither.
 
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