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Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEOStephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEOPosted Sep 13, 2010 20:39 UTC (Mon) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018)In reply to: Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO by boog Parent article: Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO
Which hardware maker will want to re-develop all their Linux drivers for Windows Mobile, for a company that's out of the smart-phone market? Or do you expect Nokia to develop Windows drivers? With which employees, the MeeGo or the Symbian devs?
I think Nokia will have to go on the Linux way, one way or another.
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Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO Posted Sep 13, 2010 23:20 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
The only thing that switching to Windows would do would kill Nokia faster then if they stuck with Symbian. I would hope that they are not so stupid as to allow something like that to happen.
Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO Posted Sep 14, 2010 13:29 UTC (Tue) by emk (guest, #1128) [Link]
About a year ago, I read an article in a French newspaper with a senior Nokia executive who was very, very excited about their Microsoft partnership that allows them to read Office documents on their phones. When asked about competing smart phones, he seemed to get pretty obsessed about how wonderful Microsoft was. I felt pretty worried about Nokia's future after reading that article.
Note that this should be taken with a grain of salt—it's been filtered through both a newspaper reporter and my limited command of French. But I wouldn't rule out a big strategic shift to Windows 7 Mobile, either.
Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO Posted Sep 14, 2010 14:50 UTC (Tue) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]
If the future of Nokia is about making phones optimised for its own executives then they might as well get started with the process of shutting the company down before their competitors have the pleasure of doing so in the marketplace.
Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO Posted Sep 14, 2010 18:07 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
> Microsoft partnership that allows them to read Office documents on their phones.
Well that is actually a big deal for a phone. The ability to edit office documents is a killer for businesses and businesses are a huge consumer of smartphones. But I would not read much into the wankerings of executives in press releases. To them everything is wonderful, all products are ground breaking, and all partnerships are invaluable!
But who knows what they really think.
Like this Stephen Elop. How loyal to Microsoft do you think he is? How attached to Windows Mobile is he? It's really a very personal choice for a executive like that. Maybe he felt that Windows Phone 7 design is shit and wanted to break away from his old company to prove that he could do a better job if he was put in charge? That is just as likely as him hoping to eliminate Symbian and Meego in favor of Windows Phone 7 phones.
Maybe after breaking away from Microsoft because of Balmer refusing to stand down the last thing he would want to see is all the profits of his new company draining away into the pockets of his old nemesis.
Who knows?
We will just have to wait and see.
If this is any indication:
It certainly looks like Nokia is not aiming to abandon Meego any time soon.
Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO Posted Sep 14, 2010 18:20 UTC (Tue) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]
I'd like this opportunity to link to FreOffice... The only free software mobile office suite. OpenDocument based, can read most ms-office documents, lots of cool stuff and... development sponsored by Nokia: http://freoffice.blogspot.com/
Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO Posted Sep 16, 2010 16:50 UTC (Thu) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link] Office suites are for opening attachments from old people. I guess there is a market for "senior-friendly phones," though.
Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO Posted Sep 17, 2010 10:42 UTC (Fri) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870) [Link]
> Office suites are for opening attachments from old people.
If you mean by that "old enough to actually have a job", I'd agree.
No changing horses in midstream Posted Sep 14, 2010 5:28 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] for a company that's out of the smart-phone market?Eh??? Outside of the USA, Nokia still has a very hefty chunk of the smartphone market. Symbian is globally still the most widely used smartphone OS, despite all the iPhone and Android hype (and even Gartner thinks it will have a 39% share in 2012). But I agree it would be extremely stupid for Nokia to switch OS'es to a totally different one now. Even if Elop tried, I doubt he would succeed, there is too much we-do-it-our-way culture at Nokia for that to happen. He would have to fire all the engineers...
No changing horses in midstream Posted Sep 14, 2010 11:52 UTC (Tue) by anandrajan (subscriber, #146) [Link]
It's likely the parent meant Microsoft and not Nokia. Though, the contention that Microsoft is out of the smart-phone market is dubious considering they just released Windows Mobile 7 a few days ago.
Didn't a top Microsoft exec go to Vmware (EMC)? These things happen all the time and we shouldn't read too much into them. IMHO, Intel and Nokia have too much invested in Meego to switch horses midstream. But, Nokia - being a hardware company - is capable of making Windows Mobile 7 phones, Meego phones and even Android phones for that matter - like Samsung and HTC. Whether it is in their interests to do so is another matter altogether.
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