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Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones

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Re: Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones

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Post by romwell »

eitland wrote: post #2

Actually looking forward to getting a new Nokia w/Android soon now. :-)

I have one now, it's quite pleasant.

I liked the cameras on Lumias better, but overall, I have no complaints about my Nokia 6 - and it can probably stop a bullet too.

Re: Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones

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Post by JTon »

romwell wrote: post #3
eitland wrote: post #2

Actually looking forward to getting a new Nokia w/Android soon now. :-)

I have one now, it's quite pleasant. I liked the cameras on Lumias better, but overall, I have no complaints about my Nokia 6 - and it can probably stop a bullet too.

Hype train is chugging away for the 7 plus. And I have to admit, it hits many sweet spots.

Re: Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones

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Post by glibgil »

> Elop combined two different CEOs cardinal blunders: The Osborne and Ratner Effects.

> In 1983, the computer manufacturer Osborne announced several new models of computers, which they said would be launched in sales after one year. In the meanwhile, sales of the old models plummeted because the consumers were waiting for the new models. Osborne ended up in bankruptcy. Gerard Ratner, on the other hand, was the CEO of the jewelry company Ratners. He gave a speech in 1991, where he said that Ratners products were so cheap because they were “total crap”. The consumers believed him and stopped buying.

> Elop announced that Nokia is giving up on Symbian before any Windows Phone smartphone was ready (Osborne effect) and with his “burning platform” speech, expressed that Symbian and MeeGo were trash (Ratner effect).

https://medium.com/@harrikiljander/operation-elop-6f2b043f52...

Re: Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones

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Post by eli »

glibgil wrote: post #6

> Elop combined two different CEOs cardinal blunders: The Osborne and Ratner Effects. > In 1983, the computer manufacturer Osborne announced several new models of computers, which they said would be launched in sales after one year. In the meanwhile, sales of the old models plummeted because the consumers were waiting for the new models. Osborne ended up in bankruptcy. Gerard Ratner, on the other hand, was the CEO of…

Elop: "The first iPhone shipped in 2007, and we still don't have a product that is close to their experience. Android came on the scene just over two years ago, and this week they took our leadership position in smartphone volumes. Unbelievable."

That was an accurate (and arguably obvious) description of the market in 2011. Nokia had a big problem on their hands and that's true whether they chose to acknowledge it or not.

Should the CEO have stayed silent to his own staff about the perilous fate of the projects they were working on?

Re: Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones

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Post by oldcynic »

glibgil wrote: post #6

> Elop combined two different CEOs cardinal blunders: The Osborne and Ratner Effects. > In 1983, the computer manufacturer Osborne announced several new models of computers, which they said would be launched in sales after one year. In the meanwhile, sales of the old models plummeted because the consumers were waiting for the new models. Osborne ended up in bankruptcy. Gerard Ratner, on the other hand, was the CEO of…

I never did figure out what was supposed to be wrong with MeeGo/Maemo. Always thought it had a lot of potential and some great UX ideas that were nowhere else.

Re: Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones

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Post by bitmapbrother »

glibgil wrote: post #6

> Elop combined two different CEOs cardinal blunders: The Osborne and Ratner Effects. > In 1983, the computer manufacturer Osborne announced several new models of computers, which they said would be launched in sales after one year. In the meanwhile, sales of the old models plummeted because the consumers were waiting for the new models. Osborne ended up in bankruptcy. Gerard Ratner, on the other hand, was the CEO of…

You can even make the case for a brand new effect called the Elop effect whereby you continually throw away the previous OS and development model and replace it with a new non compatible OS and development model.
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