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I still belief Elop was a MS trojan horse to somehow get the Nokia phone devision to Microsoft. The whole "burning platform" memo together with hamstringing the

I still belief Elop was a MS trojan horse to somehow get the Nokia phone devision to Microsoft. The whole "burning platform" memo together with hamstringing the N9 which was a great phone (I used one until the battery died some day) and OS (maybe we would not have this IOS/android duopoly if Nokia would have really pushed Meego), it all seemed incredibly unprofessional and more like the actions of someone competitor not what the CEO would do.

jillesvangurp 4y ago
He was appointed by a Nokia board looking to sell the business to MS. He was a patsy. Most of the bad decision making happened before Elop. And they appointed him to finish the job. The fault lies with the Nokia management and the board, including their former CEO, Jorma Ollila.
vesinisa 4y ago
If you want to go to politics, the sad reality is that Elop was neither a Trojan horse nor even the thing/person that killed Nokia. What is true is that Nokia was managed as an amalgamation of internally competing departments. The board and the C-level managers (already way before Elop) saw this as a good thing, or at least were too meek to stand up to the department heads. So when the Symbian team did everything it could to harm Maemo/MeeGo (maybe because they saw it as a direct threat to their job security), nobody understood this was massively hurting Nokia as a whole and not serving their customers. What's more, even if somebody did understand this, any concerns would have fallen on deaf ears as Nokia also had a culture of corporate arrogance. It saw itself as too big & successful to fail. They could make whatever mistakes, but it was alright because they could always revisit and make better decisions later. I don't think they fully realized how wrong they were even years after the Android/iOS duopoly had already solidified - considering how immense amounts of money they kept spending (under M$) in trying to bootstrap the Windows Phone ecosystem that was always destined to fail.

jillesvangurp 4y ago

He was appointed by a Nokia board looking to sell the business to MS. He was a patsy. Most of the bad decision making happened before Elop. And they appointed him to finish the job. The fault lies with the Nokia management and the board, including their former CEO, Jorma Ollila.

vesinisa 4y ago

If you want to go to politics, the sad reality is that Elop was neither a Trojan horse nor even the thing/person that killed Nokia. What is true is that Nokia was managed as an amalgamation of internally competing departments. The board and the C-level managers (already way before Elop) saw this as a good thing, or at least were too meek to stand up to the department heads. So when the Symbian team did everything it could to harm Maemo/MeeGo (maybe because they saw it as a direct threat to their job security), nobody understood this was massively hurting Nokia as a whole and not serving their customers. What's more, even if somebody did understand this, any concerns would have fallen on deaf ears as Nokia also had a culture of corporate arrogance. It saw itself as too big & successful to fail. They could make whatever mistakes, but it was alright because they could always revisit and make better decisions later. I don't think they fully realized how wrong they were even years after the Android/iOS duopoly had already solidified - considering how immense amounts of money they kept spending (under M$) in trying to bootstrap the Windows Phone ecosystem that was always destined to fail.