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I have a Nokia 8 for development and it’s a nicer phone than the Pixel 2 for the price. Imagine a world where Nokia doesn’t hire a MS exec as CEO to tank the c
by foobarbazetc 9y ago
I have a Nokia 8 for development and it’s a nicer phone than the Pixel 2 for the price.
Imagine a world where Nokia doesn’t hire a MS exec as CEO to tank the company so they can sell it to MS and instead adopted Android.
They’d be worth more than Samsung.
- jitix 9y ago> They’d be worth more than Samsung Samsung is not just about phones. They are a major computer hardware manufacturer (memory, SSDs, etc.), major appliance manufacturer and also a major producer of mobile chips, among other things. But yeah if Nokia had adopted android long back Samsung's phone's probably wouldn't have become that popular. Or Nokia might have eaten market share from Apple.
- pjmlp 9y agoThey could have started for not having internal wars between Symbian and Maemo units. Already when the first Maemo tablet was shown to us on internal demos, we saw the future, but it was unthinkable to have GSM support. Followed by not having a bonus clause for the CEO to tank the company. Thankfully they managed to survive, even if on a different shape.
- foobarbazetc 9y agoYeah the Samsung Mobile part was implied. ;) Definitely an interesting counter factual to think about. I wonder if the Nokia board from that time ever think about the collosal mistake they made hiring some MS guy. I wonder if anyone wrote anything about it.