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I'm aware that many dislike Elop (and there may be many good reasons), but I'm still in awe of his "burning platform" memo[1]. He lays out the horrible situati
by michaelbuckbee 15y ago
I'm aware that many dislike Elop (and there may be many good reasons), but I'm still in awe of his "burning platform" memo[1].
He lays out the horrible situation they are in: pressured from the top of the market by Android+Apple and at the low end by a huge wave of asian cell phone makers.
Compare his very clear eyed approach to the ongoing and incoherent messages coming out of RIM.
[1] - http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/nokia-ceo-stephen-elop-rallies-troops-in-brutally-honest-burnin/ http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/nokia-ceo-stephen-elop-ra...
- diminish 15y agoHaving followed Tomi, and judged by myself, Elop's memo was a killing coup on Nokia, rather than a saving hand. S Elop could not manage properly a transition to a new platform/s and his main decision to switch to Microsoft's again and again unproven/failed platform can be judged ridiculous by a 10 years old child, even, namely Ms platform was sunk already multiple times (here speaks a Windows developer, aka me), HTC/LG/Samsung were already producing the phones, MS's stragegic misalignment with Nokia etc etc etc.
- michaelbuckbee 15y agoI'm not really disagreeing with you. I'm not particularly bullish on the Nokia+MS partnership, etc. What I'm objecting to is more the framing and context of the criticism. I think it's a hard case to make that Nokia was doing gangbusters and that since Elop came in that it's suddenly unexpectedly not doing well.