Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops phone production
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Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops phone production
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#2"The Californian search giant" - typo, or am I missing something?
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#3I'm just surprised how long this took. I was expecting this to happen for the past few years already. Thanks and goodbye.
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#4The table graphic in this article really eschews clarity. The most recent figures on the left and a giant emoji slapped over it? Seems like a graph would've been better suited. The source even has the table in text format for easy processing.
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#5I'm just surprised how long this took. I was expecting this to happen for the past few years already. Thanks and goodbye.
It has been already happening for the past few years. The first round was handled by Nokia. Last year MS announced layoffs of 2300 people in Finland. After this there is pretty much nobody left.
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#6The table graphic in this article really eschews clarity. The most recent figures on the left and a giant emoji slapped over it? Seems like a graph would've been better suited. The source even has the table in text format for easy processing.
eschews clarity
Those are rather nice words, I'm tempted to use plain 'ridiculous'. Feels like a child could do better. Ok it's not some scientific article, but still, you could put at least some effort in it.
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#8I wonder how it would have played out for Nokia if Microsoft had not bought them. Rather better in some ways I'd imagine.
Re: Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops phone production
#9The table graphic in this article really eschews clarity. The most recent figures on the left and a giant emoji slapped over it? Seems like a graph would've been better suited. The source even has the table in text format for easy processing.
eschews clarity Those are rather nice words, I'm tempted to use plain 'ridiculous'. Feels like a child could do better. Ok it's not some scientific article, but still, you could put at least some effort in it.
I had an image of Businessinsider as something staid like FT, but on clicking through some of those links it appears to be more like a non-ironic version of Clickhole.
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#10I wonder how it would have played out for Nokia if Microsoft had not bought them. Rather better in some ways I'd imagine.
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 case WP doesn't fly. (I don't have evidence of this, but clearly Ballmer really, really wanted Nokia's phones and Nadella really, really doesn't.)
In the alternate universe where Nokia's board decided to go with Android instead of Windows, I think they would have ended up as a kind of European HTC or Sony in the Android market. And in that scenario the Nokia phone unit wouldn't have been worth $7.2 billion either.