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NokiaPlanB was a hoax

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Re: NokiaPlanB was a hoax

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Post by danilocampos »

It's a sad state of affairs for your company when an anonymous guy can put up a blog offering a fake plan to turn things around and get a boatload of attention and excitement. On the other hand: we're living in interesting times. A guy with an interesting idea can, overnight, capture the imagination of tens of thousands of people for very little time and money.

I guess for anyone who was holding onto hope of a non-Olop, non-Microsoft Nokia, there's only one thing left to say:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A

Re: NokiaPlanB was a hoax

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Post by ars »

Sometimes these things take on a life of their own.

While the author of the plan was not serious it seems there are a lot of people who do actually like his plan, and do take it seriously.

Maybe some of them will organize using this plan as a starting template.

Re: NokiaPlanB was a hoax

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Post by jawee »

Being a shareholder is kind of a weak claim to authority when anybody can be anyway, isn´t it? If he picked up a couple of NOK stock is he able to be taken exponentially more seriously?

Re: NokiaPlanB was a hoax

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Post by brudgers »

danilocampos wrote: post #2

It's a sad state of affairs for your company when an anonymous guy can put up a blog offering a fake plan to turn things around and get a boatload of attention and excitement. On the other hand: we're living in interesting times. A guy with an interesting idea can, overnight, capture the imagination of tens of thousands of people for very little time and money. I guess for anyone who was holding onto hope of a non-Ol…

The fact that it was covered as news to the degree that Engadget has to run a follow up is symptomatic of a far sadder state of affairs which exists in tech media.
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