> Stephen Elop's "Burning Platforms" Elop's call to action to Nokia on how they need to embrace a non-homegrown platform. I was working at Nokia as a contracto

> Stephen Elop's "Burning Platforms" Elop's call to action to Nokia on how they need to embrace a non-homegrown platform. I was working at Nokia as a contractor at the time this memo came out. It's really sad that you don't get the context and reaction for this. For many it fell on deaf ears, a weakly justified position that was being driven home by a very poor parable; it's true that the MeeGo development was troubled, we used to joke that we had the most expensive clock application in the world due to the number of re-writes. But Nokia at the time had a staggering bit of hardware, impressively let down by being released very late and with Windows Phone (which people remarked was very pleasant to use but had no apps; because apps were silverlight and a nightmare to program for). Many of the people involved in MeeGo at the time jumped ship to Jolla and worked on SailfishOS; a spiritual successor. I still remember the day the memo came out; the office was abandoned> Half the staff going to IT to have their linux machines re-formatted to Windows and the other half going to the pub.