Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones (2017)
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HN comment orderI worked at Nokia during OPK and Elop. I always have to cringe when I read these articles blaming everything on him, he’s Finland’s favorite scapegoat. Truth is, the rot set in at Nokia long before Elop arrived. What most people don’t realize was that the issue was not strategic it was cultural and political. Elop could have been the best leader, making the best strategic decisions in the world but it wouldn’t have made any impact at all on…
The old Nokia crowd seem to have a tough time admitting that all of Nokia's old software operations were beyond salvage by 2010. Symbian had turned into a sprawling pile of crap, and Maemo/MeeGo was painted in a corner by internal politics that had marginalized its development. Nokia was spending ten times as much as Apple on R&D, yet had very little to show for it. Having two competing OS teams was a bad choice made much earlier by Elop's…
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
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| 2018-02-11 | Operation Elop – The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones | dacm | 3 | 0 |
| 2018-02-26 | Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phonesFirst breakout | mlla | 76 | 65 |
| 2020-12-20 | Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones (2017)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | partingshots | 129 | 158 |