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You can look backwards at the "burning platform" thread and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2195520 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21955
by GFischer 13y ago
You can look backwards at the "burning platform" thread and discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2195520 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2195520
His memo was hailed as a good move, but even then, many (including myself) were arguing for Nokia moving to Android:
SandB0x 954 days ago | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2195699 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2195699
"Please, please, Nokia, adopt Android and put your efforts into making great hardware to go with it, without ruining the interface like so many other manufacturers do."
Interestingly, the "trojan horse" hypothesis has been around for at least 2 years:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3928410 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3928410
with some skeptics unable to believe it (it still sounds farfetched, I believe that the cause was incompetence myself).
nl 504 days ago
"Now, of course, he grasps at a broad conspiracy theory involving Nokia CEO Elop being somehow motivated to deliberately destroy Nokia for Microsoft."