Comments on: Symbiosis: Nokia, Finland And The Rise Of Jolla

By: Spedex

Spedex — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:55:23 +0000

Hmm.. Meant to reply krishna but here we are. Edit button would be convenient.

By: Spedex

Spedex — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:54:02 +0000

That is exactly correct. WP was lackluster and marginal back then when Nokia adopted it and it still is. Going with that boat was crazy. Everybody and their moms knew that. Billions of market value lost, thousands of jobs lost. What a brilliant strategy it was.

By: dissatisfiedreaded

dissatisfiedreaded — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 18:11:40 +0000

Yes, and, please, make the font color more dark, because it’s virtually impossible to read on a white background. Thank you.

By: N521

N521 — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 14:46:41 +0000

Does the legendary help the resurrection of Nokia? With globalization, Nokia is a name only, not so much with Finland any more. No offending to the Finnish people. Think about the CEO, what was the name?

By: Digital Remaster

Digital Remaster — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 11:25:58 +0000

“Somebody were proud and somebody were jealous.”

And others, like myself, had other things to worry about in their daily lives.

“For a famously stoic nation, Finns get emotional when you talk about Nokia.”

Thats a huge exaggeration and over generalization. At the end of the day, Nokia is a faceless company, which didn’t even make a big deal about its “finnishness”(Transformers, anyone?). Rovio is a bit similar. This isn’t sports we’re talking about.

By: temppa

temppa — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 09:19:20 +0000

Well, Finland DECLARED independence in 1917, but it’s independence was recognised by other countries only in early 1918, so it’s not so clear-cut.

By: Jaska

Jaska — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 07:26:39 +0000

Yes, Nokia was founded before Finland was independent. However there was no huge emotions to company before 1990′s. It was well known on rubber, tires, paper, cables, etc,but only tech freeks were aware on Nokia’s telecom & computers, with pride of course. Emotionalism raised just when Nokia’s succeed with mobile phones. As usually in Finland there were just two kind of emotions. Somebody were proud and somebody were jealous.

By: Sausage

Sausage — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 05:28:52 +0000

Very interesting article that was, though I was quite offended as a Finn for one part in it. Finland gained independence in 1917, not 1918.

By: krishna6233

krishna6233 — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 04:35:26 +0000

Wp killed NOKIA not symbian,not android,not ios

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 01:39:06 +0000

Nokia still remains far too close to MS, now, & well into the foreseeable future…
If they returned to hand-held sw/hw* I’d want LOTS of clear info. proving there’s no “dubious” links with MS, + some smart contracts in place BEFORE any strategic partnership.
EVEN THEN I’d prefer that they had nothing to do with each other, apart from the occasional Patent/IP licensing deal, there’s many other -much more suitable- big partners out there whom they could form an alliance with.

*which by all accts from those most well-informed is VERY unlikely