“Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said rumors that Nokia was for sale were ‘baseless,’ amidst reports that the struggling handset maker’s Chief Technology Officer has taken an indefinite leave of absence because Nokia is replacing its MeeGo project with Windows Phone,” Sara Yin reports for PC Magazine.
“Nokia CTO Richard Green was taking an indefinite leave of absence for ‘personal reasons.’ Henry Tirri, head of Nokia Research Center, will act in his place,” Yin reports. “The Next Web cites two sources saying that Green will be away at least until the end of the year, and probably won’t return to Nokia afterwards… A Finnish newspaper cited in The New York Times reported that Green was unhappy about Nokia’s reported plans to phase out the MeeGo smartphone platform, now that Nokia has partnered with Microsoft to bring Windows Phone 7 to Nokia handsets.”
Yin reports, “During Elop’s keynote at the Open Mobile Summit, he also credited Apple for giving birth to its biggest rival, Android: ‘Apple created Android, or at least it created the conditions necessary to create Android. People decided they could not play in the Apple way, and they had to do something else. Then Google stepped in there and created Android…and others jumped on the Android train.'”
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