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No, I don't think he'll be seen worse than the CEOs of AOL Time Warner, Enron, Worldcom, or Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, but sure you go on with you
by leokun 13y ago
No, I don't think he'll be seen worse than the CEOs of AOL Time Warner, Enron, Worldcom, or Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, but sure you go on with your hyperbole. It's turning into a staple on HN. Really raising the bar there.
Edit: parent comment used to say "worst CEO of modern history"
- lbarrow 13y agoYou've got a point. I'll edit it to say "terrible". How's that?
- kaonashi 13y agoThey did tread water. I'd go with 'middling'.
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- sampo 13y ago> parent comment used to say "worst CEO of modern history" What about Stephen Elop? "As of June 2013, Nokia's [...] stock value dropped by 85% since Elop's takeover." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop
- simonh 13y agoThat would have happened whoever they'd hired, their inertia towards inevitable doom was unstoppable. His failure was to not not see this and turn down the job.
- danieldk 13y agoThat probably would've happened anyway. Nokia was far to late in the post-iPhone introduction market. In fact, I get the impression that they are slowly recovering. They have a good hardware lineup and are starting to get traction in lower-income markets (e.g. South America). Also, the Lumia 521 and 520 are now topping the non-contract phones best-seller charts on Amazon.com.
- CmonDev 13y agoYou can't stop a train immediately. At least Symbian/MeeGo/Android chasm has been avoided.
- claudius 13y agoApologies, but Harmattan (aka Maemo 6 aka ‘MeeGo Instance’) is still my favourite mobile OS, and even though it was released in 2010 it still easily keeps up with the standard stuff on Android, iOS and Windows Phone (no voice recognition à la Siri, though).
- CmonDev 13y agoThat was too late for a new OS. Their effort alone wouldn't have been enough to fill their app store.
- ricardonunez 13y agoElop started with Nokia in a bad position compared to when Ballmer took over Microsoft.
- rbanffy 13y ago> What about Stephen Elop? How so? The guy is absolutely brilliant! Of course, you must realize he actually works for Microsoft, not Nokia.