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I take it you didn't see the MS write down of Nokia mobile phones. Over ten times that, 7.6 billion USD: https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/8/8910999/microsoft-job

I take it you didn't see the MS write down of Nokia mobile phones. Over ten times that, 7.6 billion USD: https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/8/8910999/microsoft-job-cuts-2015-nokia-write-off https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/8/8910999/microsoft-job-cuts... Worse than brutal, a shame. And Windows Phone 8.1 was actually a good platform. I'm back on iOS, and it feels like being kicked back to the 20th century.

kryptiskt 9y ago
HP had to take a write down of $8.8B after their Autonomy acquisition.
- rrdharan 9y ago
  ... and Time Warner wrote down AOL by $45B. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1043702683178461304 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1043702683178461304
  - jzawodn 9y ago
    That. Was. Awesome.
dingo_bat 9y ago
> And Windows Phone 8.1 was actually a good platform. Also, Nokia was a world leader. Imagine what all that manufacturing and design capability could have accomplished. Sad waste.