“Nokia CEO Stephen Elop thinks that Apple’s iPhone is embarrassing. So much so that he threw Finnish talk show host Hjallis Harkimo’s iPhone to the ground on live TV,” Alexandra Chang reports for Wired.
“Harkimo had Elop as a guest on his talk show Hjalliksen kanssa (which translates to With Hjallis) on Thursday. When the host brought up the rumored Nokia Lumia 928, asking when it would launch, Elop did as much as he could to avoid the question,” Chang reports. “At one point, Harkimo took out his iPhone. ‘Oh, how embarrassing!’ Elop remarked.”
MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, embarrassing for you, Flop.
Chang reports, “He took the iPhone out of Harkimo’s hand and threw it off camera. You can hear the sickening sound of phone hitting the ground. ‘There, it’s gone,’ Elop said laughing.”
MacDailyNews Take: Yup, gone – just like the 40,000+ Nokia employees axed since the beginning of Flop’s reign of abject incompetence. Old frogface makes Ballmer look like a business genius.
MacDailyNews Take: The stench of desperation reeks from every pore of the the world’s worst CEO, but at least throwing an inanimate device across the floor is better than Elop’s favorite move: Throwing tens of thousands of his employees overboard as he steams the SS Nokia straight for the iceberg.
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MDN, you left a glaring hole in your take.
What was not known was Ballmer donated his brain to Elop just before the interview.
Ballmer had a brain to donate? I think they found crickets, lint and 5 1/4″ floppy discs where his brain should’ve been when they went to remove it.
They found the missing right nut. That’s why BLN has finally chosen the right platform.
Somebody wants a Nokia phone? That’s the most shocking news I’ve heard in a long while
I have one of their cheap little brain dead phones. They’re good at making cheap little brain dead phones! 😉
He mad! LOL
Elop marches in the same brave & confident footsteps as the Twin CEO’s at RIM did, eh, oh wait, they were sacked…
He wanted to create a moment that would go viral and bring attention to his phone and with that move he succeeded, I’ve seen this video offered on a news headline more than just here at MDN. Will it create a huge wave of switchers over to his phones? Likely not.
I would have jacked him right there. On camera.
Oh come on. Don’t you realize that that whole thing was staged?
It seemed to be, but if it wasn’t….boom….right straight.
Left hook. If needed. Not likely.
Well, first he playfully “tossed” it instead of “threw” it and it probably was okay on the rebound, but Harkimo obviously “wants” a Nokia instead of an iPhone. Maybe it’s a nationalist thing?
Microsoft threw Nokia under the bus and Nokia still wants to continue with the Windows Platform OS. Wake up Nokia, wake up!
I would have told Elop that a damaged used iPhone is still worth more than his brand new Nokia Lumia 928!
Take a bow Mr Elop!
I would have bitch slapped that clown.
The host should have picked it up and shown him that it still works even after the little temper tantrum of their national company’s eloping CEO.
Bet it still works!
Wtf was the Nokia board on when they hired this guy???
Idiot
What a complete dickhead.
Yeah, he WISHES that just ignoring the iPhone will make it go away… Hope is not a strategy.
A phone out of sight is a phone out of mind.
I am reminded of the ravenous bugblatter beast of traal, which is such a stupid animal that it assumes if you can’t see it, it can’t see you…
[Credit to Douglas Adams, RIP]
That lifted my day.
What a zero.
Throw an iPhone, or throw a chair! It is a habit he probably picked up while working out…. I mean working at Microsoft!
A perfect demonstration of why you don’t send a CEO to do a PR job.
Total *DING* Factor. √
Bad reporting, as usual! First off, he didn’t say the iPhone is embarrassing. It was embarrassing that he had an iPhone on Finnish TV, interviewing the CEO of Nokia. Secondly, it was obviously a setup. He didn’t care that his iPhone was thrown I the floor, and he said he didn’t want an iPhone. He wants a Nokia 928. This is a non-story. Just giving Nokia free publicity.
Very good observation. You’re probably correct.
devELOPers devELOPers devELOPers
Give a nokia enough elop to hang him
What a lousy spokesman for a brand, it’s own CEO. He did more harm to the brand than not appearing at all. Anyone else would have been fired representing a brand like this.
He is lucky he is the CEO. He better enjoy it while he can because it wont be much longer.
Shhhhhh May ELop remain CEO as long as it takes!
I think MDN is contextually challenged. I think he was saying that the reporter having an iPhone was embarassing… not the iPhone itself.
He did not believe he could fail. That is why he did.
I can envision a world where a major war is started based on people’s predilections towards phone brand loyalty.
Look, they’re all just fine. Use what you want. Quit throwing things. Get your hand out of your pants. Sit up. Pay attention. Wipe that stupid smile off your face.
MDN is just following their new BFF, Rush, in their ability to exaggerate and embellish. He will be so proud of you MDN.
He seems like a passionate.. er.. Nokia.. fan… WTF?!
I never liked the Lumia line. For some reason the phone looks like little colorful Lego blocks. Can I have a few 928? I wanna build a castle.