“With Nokia expected to unveil a shift in its long term strategy at the company’s annual Capital Markets Day this Friday, it should be no surprise that rumor and conjecture are rife,” Steve O’Hear reports for TechCrunch. “Much of that has focused on whether or not the Finnish mobile giant will be adopting a third-party platform with talk of Windows Phone 7 given new CEO Stephen Elop’s previous connection with Redmond. A rumor that our well-placed sources would appear to confirm – see below.”
“But we’re also hearing that Nokia is planning to lay down stronger roots in Silicon Valley too – like so many a European tech outfit… And in what looks like preparing the troops for a major change of direction, an internal Nokia memo titled ‘Standing on a burning platform’ has been doing the rounds,” O’Hear reports. “The widely distributed circular penned by Elop himself is a description of Nokia’s somewhat precarious position – and I say that as someone who has been fairly bullish on the handset maker’s recent products.”
MacDailyNews Take: Steve Jobs, pyromaniac.
O’Hear reports, “Specifically, our sources say that the memo paints a picture of a smartphone market in which Apple owns the high end, Android is winning in the mid-range, and Chinese competitors – MediaTek is singled out – are likely to snatch the low end. In other words, Nokia is being attacked on all fronts. Symbian and MeeGo are cited as simply not being competitive enough. Instead, the choices facing the company, as hinted at by Elop in Nokia’s recent earnings call, are to ‘build, catalyse or join’ – the implication, says one source, is that to build is a reference to Symbian or Meego, catalyse refers to Windows Phone 7 and join would mean Android.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Going from MeeGo to MeToo is not a winning strategy, it’s merely a survival strategy. It’s wholly unsurprising that Microsoftie Elop would chose such a route.
sos …M$ Nokia
is going down…sos…
sos …M$ Nokia
is going down…sos…
“Here we go
Wait for it………
Microsoft & Nokia in Bed”
Yeah. MS did wonders for the Sidekick. Who knows what disasters they could engineer with a company the size of Nokia?
@ Burning platform
If any ol’ company can do what Apple does, they’d be doing it already. The truth is, what Apple does is very risky and it takes courageous leadership (not just “vision” and talented people).
@ken1w
+10
Going Microsoft sounds like Nokia are fixen’ to die. I think it is time we began preparing Nokia’s WAKE. Nice knowing ya.
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We also have to consider the ‘human’ aspects of Nokia’s problems. Big organizations are rife with internal politics and turf wars (prime example Microsoft). Will Nokia execs take it well an outsider (from a rival company no less) tells them basically that their stuff and efforts for the last few years are sh*t (true as it may be)? Bonuses ( a big chunk of senior execs pay.) are tied with performance goals of their departments: now the three year or whatever goal of Meego etc going to be thrown out?
If what happened to other companies before happens to Nokia you will find plenty of backroom infighting in Nokia (even the old Apple had conflicts between the Apple 2 and the Mac guys). Does Elop have the power or charisma to hold the shebang together to do drastic surgery? I think he knows what he faces and memo was the first salvo of his internal PR war.
The SS “Nokia” is sinking!
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