1000+ Nokia workers have walked out in protest (in English via Google Translate)
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Re: 1000+ Nokia workers have walked out in protest (in English via Google Translate)
#2No PR campaign can save Nokia from this well-deserved disaster.
Btw, NOK is down 15%
Re: 1000+ Nokia workers have walked out in protest (in English via Google Translate)
#3No PR campaign can save Nokia from this well-deserved disaster. Btw, NOK is down 15%
Not sure this is well-deserved, but it certainly has been a couple of years in the making. Who didn't see this coming?
Oh, and there go our tax euros. Symbian has been given EU tax money to develop a "European localized mobile operating system"
Re: 1000+ Nokia workers have walked out in protest (in English via Google Translate)
#4No PR campaign can save Nokia from this well-deserved disaster. Btw, NOK is down 15%
Maybe next they will try Bada?
Re: 1000+ Nokia workers have walked out in protest (in English via Google Translate)
#5No PR campaign can save Nokia from this well-deserved disaster. Btw, NOK is down 15%
Better than continuing with Symbian and having to lay off all the employees in a few years time.
Re: 1000+ Nokia workers have walked out in protest (in English via Google Translate)
#6Heh heh, try to back-button yourself out of that page.
Re: 1000+ Nokia workers have walked out in protest (in English via Google Translate)
#7Heh heh, try to back-button yourself out of that page.
Although it works for me, I'd imagine that's a Google Translate issue.
Here's the original article URL: http://www.hs.fi/talous/artikkeli/Nokian+ty%C3%B6ntekij%C3%A...
Re: 1000+ Nokia workers have walked out in protest (in English via Google Translate)
#8Whether it was Android, Microsoft, or slowly dying, people working there would be affected, so I'm not sure the choice of Microsoft changes things too much from that point of view. With Android, perhaps they could have kept more people on board to hack on it and customize it, but still, the axe was going to fall.
Should be interesting to see how this is handled in Finland. Stock is down, layoffs, and some "arrogant foreigner" in charge would be a recipe for even more change in some places.
Re: 1000+ Nokia workers have walked out in protest (in English via Google Translate)
#9Let's see
1. Hire someone from Microsoft to run the company
2. He says "our platform is burning, we have to do something drastic" which most people interpret as "prepare to come up with a strategy and fight like hell to win".
3. Guess what, he already had something in mind! It was "throw out our current reasonably successful development efforts and become a licensee of Microsoft's failed platform instead". And piss off all our QT-based app developers at the same time.
What could possibly go wrong?
I seriously wonder if this guy might not end up having to leave and not set foot in Finland (or the EU) again for fear of arrest. I have a feeling some Finland business regulators will be going through his emails with a fine-toothed comb.
Re: 1000+ Nokia workers have walked out in protest (in English via Google Translate)
#10Let's see 1. Hire someone from Microsoft to run the company 2. He says "our platform is burning, we have to do something drastic" which most people interpret as "prepare to come up with a strategy and fight like hell to win". 3. Guess what, he already had something in mind! It was "throw out our current reasonably successful development efforts and become a licensee of Microsoft's failed platform instead". And piss o…
"for fear of arrest"
Whether you agree with the decision or not, nothing about it sounds in the least bit criminal.