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by Nokinside 10y ago
Because they are not done. Remember any of these: Pocket PC, Windows CE, Microsoft Kin, Windows Embedded Handheld, .... MS spent $1 billion for Kin alone. When they consider market to be important to their future, they'll keep going an
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by Nokinside 10y ago
>I guess MS got all the Nokia phone software copyrights to themselves This is incorrect. MS only bought non-exclusive, 10-year license for Nokia’s patent portfolio. Nokia has all the IP.
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by Nokinside 10y ago
- Foxconn finances this operation and engineers and manufactures the phones, essentially building a new non-bidding customer for itself and Sharp displays (owned by Foxconn) - Nokia maintains its brand recognition in consumer products. It r
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by Nokinside 10y ago
>What do you do to, say, .72 - port changes? Ignore it? Does anyone actually care about in-betweens? It seems that your project was misusing version management. Despite the name, version management is not actually taking care of managing
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Finnish startup to re-launch Nokia phones – Android this time(yle.fi)
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by Nokinside 11y ago
Or Nokia, 150 years and counting.
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by Nokinside 11y ago
Yes, but those parameters are also past their rapid growth phase in the industrialized countries. Diminishing returns are still returns, but they don't increase overall growth rate. Post industrial economies get less growth from invest
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by Nokinside 11y ago
I didn't read this McKinsey's report but the expectation of lower returns have been around a long time and there are good reasons for it. Most analysis of lower expected returns in long term is not based on recent past or any kind
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by Nokinside 11y ago
Dear Dawkins, yes. We need "Women's magazine" style site for wantrepreneurs. Motivational articles, discussions, lists of 10 things that bring success, celebrity entrepreneur gossip, fashionable wantrepreneur trends etc. Ther
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by Nokinside 11y ago
>Microsoft went from a great innovator What are the greatest innovations from Gates era that originated inside Microsoft? It's hard to find any. Bill Gates was great and ruthless businessman who understood technology, but he was not
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by Nokinside 11y ago
>Silverberg writes Gates didn't engage the government and politicians early on because he believed the company was competing fairly and creating enough value for the customers. But that approach was a "disaster," he writes
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by Nokinside 11y ago
Confessions of a Terrorist http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,480226,...
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by Nokinside 12y ago
This is like saying Tsiolkovsky rocket equation is the core of rocket science. You are not exactly wrong, but it's just one piece of the puzzle. You need to study math and algebra more broadly if you want to see and use categories solv
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by Nokinside 12y ago
That does not change the fact that category theory is oversold to programmers. You need to study math more broadly to use category theory. These intros and books for programmers just give overview of concepts. You need to study mathematics
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by Nokinside 12y ago
>The government has a unique role in a country because it has a monopoly on three institutions (courts, police, military) that are outside of free market. A citizen can not escape them, short of leaving the country. That is why Limiting
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by Nokinside 12y ago
What you missed is that Microsoft didn't buy Nokia or the brand. Nokia only sold its ‘Devices and Services’ business to Microsoft. Nokia was left with Nokia Networks, Business Services, HERE, Nokia Research. MS licensed "Nokia&qu
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by Nokinside 12y ago
That was Microsoft, this is Nokia. Two different companies using the Nokia brand.
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by Nokinside 12y ago
They are. This is not Microsoft making tablet with Nokia brand. This is Nokia the company making their own Tablet. Nokia only sold its ‘Devices and Services’ business to Microsoft and licensed its brand for transition period to MS.