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Bergius: The Dreams of the MeeGo Diaspora

Bergius: The Dreams of the MeeGo Diaspora

Posted Jul 10, 2012 9:56 UTC (Tue) by daniels (subscriber, #16193)
In reply to: Bergius: The Dreams of the MeeGo Diaspora by nim-nim
Parent article: Bergius: The Dreams of the MeeGo Diaspora

> 1. New CEO decides to partner with Microsoft. Winphone requirements demand massive hardware reorientation

It's not a massive hardware reorientation. Remember that Nokia had one of the most diverse product lines in the world, and I can assure you that they weren't reliant on a single supplier.

Even when they were, yes that does take time to ramp up in terms of sourcing and logistics, but it has absolutely nothing to do with shutting down factories. Zip, zero. The plant tools don't care whether the chip came from TI or OMAP or Sharp or Toshiba or Samsung.

Yes, it does take time, but Nokia - for all its strategic faults recently - has long been praised as one of the best handlers of its supply chain and logistics in the world.


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Bergius: The Dreams of the MeeGo Diaspora

Posted Jul 10, 2012 10:59 UTC (Tue) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

> The plant tools don't care whether the chip came from TI or OMAP or
> Sharp or Toshiba or Samsung.

Really? Are not the test processes vendor-specific?

Bergius: The Dreams of the MeeGo Diaspora

Posted Jul 10, 2012 11:01 UTC (Tue) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]

Part-specific, but a lot more of it's done in software than you'd think.

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