(removed) Edit: because the article did not load my comment was based on someone's alternative link which did not show the entire presentation, so you can ignore my comment.
Classically, a CEO is an intern with a bald spot and an ulcer.
Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]
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Re: Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]
#22This is fascinating. A reminder that being (broadly) right in your analysis doesn't necessarily mean you can execute to turn things around. They note the impact to the high-end, the fact that UI is crucial, they even had a good guess at 2008 sales numbers (estimate 14m, looks like real was 13m). I was intrigued by this bullet point on how their Maemo platform could help: * Cellular development of the maemo platform a…
> Any folks from Nokia in this time care to shed more light on that?
Cellular connection was not allowed for the Linux devices so they don't compete with the Symbian phones. Nokia had deeply dysfunctional internal politics at that point.
Re: Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]
#23(removed) Edit: because the article did not load my comment was based on someone's alternative link which did not show the entire presentation, so you can ignore my comment.
Not really. Most (all?) of the insights here, probably delivered on short notice, were completely correct over the next 15 years. Don't let the clarity, brevity, and hindsight fool you - that's just how C-suite likes information presented and we have the benefit of looking back to know that all these things were "obviously true".
Re: Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]
#24> - No mention of[…] Java support. Lack of Java would shut out a big mass of existing SW
Which was true, but developers decided it was worth writing new SW for iPhone when the App Store was unveiled (which was significantly later).
Re: Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]
#25I was there at the time and until the end. That cartoon meme with the dog sitting with a cup of coffee or whatever and telling himself "This is fine", while everything is on fire, is probably the best way to describe how things felt at nokia back then.
Can you explain why every good phone that Nokia released during the period was killed instantly? To this day I've not seen a phone that felt more responsive than the Nokia N9, which also looked amazing. Yet it was killed pretty much the second it was released.
It was born dead, or at least an orphan. Elop had started the Windows Phone strategy before it was launched.
Re: Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]
#26https://web.archive.org/web/20250115192305/https://repo.aalt... but doesn't seem to have the actual content. :(
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Re: Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]
#27This is fascinating. A reminder that being (broadly) right in your analysis doesn't necessarily mean you can execute to turn things around. They note the impact to the high-end, the fact that UI is crucial, they even had a good guess at 2008 sales numbers (estimate 14m, looks like real was 13m). I was intrigued by this bullet point on how their Maemo platform could help: * Cellular development of the maemo platform a…
> Any folks from Nokia in this time care to shed more light on that? Cellular connection was not allowed for the Linux devices so they don't compete with the Symbian phones. Nokia had deeply dysfunctional internal politics at that point.
>Nokia had deeply dysfunctional internal politics at that point.
Tell me a large company other than Apple that wasn't completely dysfunctional.
Re: Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]
#28It is clear that the presentation doesn't really get it. There would be no iPhone mini. This WAS the iPhone mini.
Re: Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]
#29I was expecting sort of the opposite, for Nokia to deride the whole iPhone thing. But it was quite the opposite, they understand what they were facing. Ultimately, the could not meet the challenge fast enough.
Re: Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]
#30(removed) Edit: because the article did not load my comment was based on someone's alternative link which did not show the entire presentation, so you can ignore my comment.
Look at it again without the knowledge of the last 18 years! And from the position of a Nokia employee back then. This is an extremely well made executive summary for that time.