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Not true. Nokia was already dying. Microsoft made a bad attempt to save Nokia when the heart had already stopped.
by victorbjorklund 2y ago
Not true. Nokia was already dying. Microsoft made a bad attempt to save Nokia when the heart had already stopped.
- pembrook 2y agoSame for Skype. Yes, most acquirers bungle the acquisition (regardless of nationality), but the reason these companies decide to sell in the first place is because their future prospects on their own don’t look great. Skype was a consumer success but consumers violently hate paying for software (just read HN). The market for video calls-as-a-business is entirely B2B. Skype with their fun whimsical branding and non-sales dominant culture couldn’t hack it. Plus, big dumb enterprises hate screening new vendors, so Microsoft/Cisco/etc were always going to win that space. Zoom basically swooped in later able to take all the learnings from Skype and go B2B from the start.
- eloisant 2y agoMicrosoft planted Stephen Elop to make sure they kill all their effort at a modern mobile OS so they end up using Windows Phone.