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I'm still skeptical of this whole affair. They got their 15 mins of fame and came across as the ones trying to make a difference. I understand that they genuine
by desigooner 16y ago
I'm still skeptical of this whole affair. They got their 15 mins of fame and came across as the ones trying to make a difference. I understand that they genuinely like Nokia, etc. but this was all too hasty and ill conceived.
The so called "9" never revealed or hinted towards who they were and all they were banking upon was "Meego is our saviour. We don't need Microsoft. We will revolt against the management" etc. without having really put an effort on having a long term plan beyond 1 blog post.
Also, how clairvoyant of them to say that most of the remaining talented software devs would have left by the time their "vision" came to fruition? Are they just talking about themselves here!?
- DevX101 16y agoI can understand why they chose not to reveal their identities so soon. If they were young as they say, they probably didn't have any power in the organization to speak of, and would almost certainly have been fired within weeks. Now that the plan didn't work they still have the option of staying at Nokia until they can find a better fir for them.
- desigooner 16y agoI understand that, I'd probably have stayed anonymous as well but it seemed like it was a hasty decision as staying anonymous sort of took out the credibility since nobody knew how much stake or influence they really had in the organization. FWIW it seemed like a few software developers who were working on Symbian if I had to guess, pledging their stock options and not really anybody from management.
- jamn 16y agoThe link is not working for me; going to http://twitter.com/NokiaPlanB/ http://twitter.com/NokiaPlanB/ only shows the following quote: "there are no 'nine young investors', just one very bored engineer who really likes his iPhone" If this is the case, then I guess that explains the anonimity.