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“Drove it into the ground” is, I think, unfair. The entire market was moving to Android and iOS. Microsoft and Nokia were late to the transition, tried to catch
by klodolph 4y ago
“Drove it into the ground” is, I think, unfair. The entire market was moving to Android and iOS. Microsoft and Nokia were late to the transition, tried to catch a section of the market, and failed. The succeeded in creating good products at the time, but having a good product is not enough, especially if you’re late to the market.
- sirbranedamuj 4y agoyeah I was a windows phone head. The Nokia Lumia 920 to this day is my favorite phone I've ever owned. But they just could not get any traction.
- insane_dreamer 4y agoI had one too; was a great phone even though I don’t care for windows
- matsemann 4y agoSame, the coolest phone I owned, and it was a joy to use. Even the un-official snapchat was miles ahead of the "real" one on Android.
- rcarmo 4y agoYou need to search for "Operation Elop". There's a free e-book that details the whole thing to a striking degree (I was at Vodafone at the time, and... well... What I know confirms all of it).
- e12e 4y ago"Operation Elop - The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones" https://medium.com/@harrikiljander/operation-elop-6f2b043f52c5 https://medium.com/@harrikiljander/operation-elop-6f2b043f52... Note - full book on medium - it makes my Firefox on Android cry... > This page hosts various alternative formats of the Medium book Operation Elop which is an English translation of the original Finnish book Operaatio Elop. You can read the story of this translation project over at Nokia People, a forum for ex-Nokians. The English translation is made available for free, with the permission of the original authors, under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. https://asokan.org/operation-elop/ https://asokan.org/operation-elop/