Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops phone production

Post by pavlov » Wed, May 25, 2016, 1:30 PM UTC

ninv wrote: post #29

anjc wrote: post #13

Hard to understand. They buy the one company division in the world who was pushing the Windows Phone brand, a company who was innovating in terms of design and cameras and who had finally cracked their own decent brand and product line etc, and they immediately start winding them down. And they're going to work on their own hardware now anyway. At the same time they throw their own stable OS in the bin and release a…

What was the point of this whole exercise? Patents. Microsoft make more money from the Android than Google ...

Post by aembleton » Wed, May 25, 2016, 1:36 PM UTC

vesinisa wrote: post #15

pavlov wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think so. Nokia got $7.2 billion from Microsoft for a loss-making device business. Nokia still exists today and swallowed Alcatel-Lucent last year. It's hard to imagine a better outcome for Nokia than Microsoft buying the phone albatross in 2013. I honestly believe that it was part of a contingency plan that had made Nokia's board approve the Windows Phone plan -- that Ballmer basically promised a buyout in c…

Either way, how was the unit worth $7.2 billion in 2013 to anyone? Why did Microsoft pay such ridiculous money for a loss-making business, only to essentially burn it down over the next two years? From April 2014, when the deal was finalized, to May 2016, when the last employees are being laid off, the damage Microsoft incurred from this deal amount to about $1.8 million per HOUR of business. Did they really think th…

Post by Aoyagi » Wed, May 25, 2016, 1:42 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #32

I guess it is about time I stop making my hobby coding portable between WP and Android, focusing just on Android. Sad, because WP is actually much better from tooling and architecture point of view, but the way the whole WP 7, WP 8, WP 8.1 and the yet to become stable WP 10, just drove everyone off. Personally I was kind of pissed off, when the 512 MB devices were left out of the last preview update. Also it was the…

Post by Aoyagi » Wed, May 25, 2016, 1:47 PM UTC

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #36

A lesson from Palm, Nokia, Motorola, and every other small-to-midsize company in the Telco arena: Never let yourselves be acquired. It won't end well.

Post by nametakenobv » Wed, May 25, 2016, 2:22 PM UTC

anjc wrote: post #13

Hard to understand. They buy the one company division in the world who was pushing the Windows Phone brand, a company who was innovating in terms of design and cameras and who had finally cracked their own decent brand and product line etc, and they immediately start winding them down. And they're going to work on their own hardware now anyway. At the same time they throw their own stable OS in the bin and release a…