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Nokia went from the biggest cell phone maker in the world to being gone in less than 10 years. Tech is pretty unforgiving.
by samfisher83 10y ago
Nokia went from the biggest cell phone maker in the world to being gone in less than 10 years. Tech is pretty unforgiving.
- colmvp 10y agoIn 2006, if you were to make the prediction that Nokia, a company generating 41B in global sales, would be gone in a decade, you'd be downvoted to oblivion.
- FLGMwt 10y agoThrowing this up here not because I believe it but because I want to be that guy that everyone harkens back to in the ludicrous chance it does happen: Ditto Apple. :P
- rhblake 10y agoGone from the cell phone business, sure, but certainly not gone as a company. Big in telco equipment. After acquiring Alcatel-Lucent, I note that Nokia now has roughly the same amount of employees as Microsoft...
- pjmlp 10y agoAnd closed most of their European units moving them to cheaper countries.... That is what makes me angry at them, not whatever they did later with Microsoft.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoOn the other hand, BlackBerry has hung on like there's no tomorrow. It's still around! Why? Who knows. But it's here long past the time that it's been the butt of jokes.