Originally Posted by flagpole:
“i find it very odd when people post dubious thing with the confidence to use phrases like 'without doubt'
nokia was basically profitable in Q4 for the fist time in god knows how long.
i don't know how you can say WP has been a disaster. MS paid them a billion dollars which has enabled them to bring viable phones to market for the first time. what exactly would you have done? oh wise one.
and it's not what nokia expected it refers to when they say better than expected.”
MS gave Nokia 1 billion, and finally parts of Nokia are starting to be profitable (yes, I know, slight gap between the two).
Nokia have sorted out their lower end range, and of the what 80+ million phones sold, 4.4 million were running WP. They sold rougly half as many Symbian devices despite an almost complete and utter lack of marketing on their behalf.
What percentage of their return to profitability is down to WP, and what percentage is down to the rest of their revamped product line?
What would I have done? Sacked most of the management team, who were repsonsible for the sad state of development at Nokia - they definitely had the development and design expertise, it was always held back by management allowing teams to compete against each other, and those with the greatest political clout tended to come through - not those with the best products.
They stupidly delayed the Maemo/MeeGo project by linking with Intel which put it into development hell, and it was the product that was most likely to bring them success.
As it stands they have absolutely no control over their destiny - if MS continue the way they're going, they will be basically using Nokia to promote the WP range while they design their own phones and then finally release them in an attempt to wrench control of the WP market.