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We all know they where in trouble then. The point is that Elop made it 10x worse. Doubling down on Windows Phone was a terrible choice. Nobody wanted that. I k

We all know they where in trouble then. The point is that Elop made it 10x worse. Doubling down on Windows Phone was a terrible choice. Nobody wanted that. I know a lot of Windows fans have convinced themselves Windows Phone was awesome but it wasn’t. Avoiding Windows Nokia could still have been alive by going for Android. Sure a smaller company than in the heyday but still alive.

pavlov 6y ago
Nokia is still alive and worth about 20 billion euros. The billions in cash that they made from selling the loss-making mobile devices albatross to Steve Ballmer allowed Nokia to purchase both Siemens’ share of the networks business as well as Alcatel.