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Nokia made too many phones
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#2Yes they did. I miss them. But thats creative destruction.
Nokia tried to do everything and ended up doing nothing. They could not compete with the joint assault by iPhone and Android.
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#3That cliff drop after they Nokia phones division got bough out by Microsoft is a big oof.
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#4> It’s interesting to see how Nokia succumbed to the bad strategy that had almost killed Apple in ‘97.
Well, here is one take;
> Nokia’s ultimate fall can be put down to internal politics. In short, Nokia people weakened Nokia people and thus made the company increasingly vulnerable to competitive forces. When fear permeated all levels, the lower rungs of the organisation turned inward to protect resources, themselves and their units, giving little away, fearing harm to their personal careers. Top managers failed to motivate the middle managers with their heavy-handed approaches and they were in the dark with what was really going on. [1]
[1] https://alumnimagazine.insead.edu/who-killed-nokia-nokia-did...
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#5> It’s interesting to see how Nokia succumbed to the bad strategy that had almost killed Apple in ‘97. Well, here is one take; > Nokia’s ultimate fall can be put down to internal politics. In short, Nokia people weakened Nokia people and thus made the company increasingly vulnerable to competitive forces. When fear permeated all levels, the lower rungs of the organisation turned inward to protect resources, themselve…
Funny how well that applies to Microsoft and its internal battle over UI layers for the past two decades.
Re: Nokia made too many phones
#6> It’s interesting to see how Nokia succumbed to the bad strategy that had almost killed Apple in ‘97. Well, here is one take; > Nokia’s ultimate fall can be put down to internal politics. In short, Nokia people weakened Nokia people and thus made the company increasingly vulnerable to competitive forces. When fear permeated all levels, the lower rungs of the organisation turned inward to protect resources, themselve…
I like to think that it was Microsoft which destroyed Nokia from the inside in order to make Windows phone great at last
https://slate.com/technology/2013/09/microsoft-nokia-deal-a-...
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#8Yes they did. I miss them. But thats creative destruction. Nokia tried to do everything and ended up doing nothing. They could not compete with the joint assault by iPhone and Android.
Joint assault of iPhone, Android and hostile takeover (intended or not!) by Microsoft.
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#9> It’s interesting to see how Nokia succumbed to the bad strategy that had almost killed Apple in ‘97. Well, here is one take; > Nokia’s ultimate fall can be put down to internal politics. In short, Nokia people weakened Nokia people and thus made the company increasingly vulnerable to competitive forces. When fear permeated all levels, the lower rungs of the organisation turned inward to protect resources, themselve…
I like to think that it was Microsoft which destroyed Nokia from the inside in order to make Windows phone great at last https://slate.com/technology/2013/09/microsoft-nokia-deal-a-...
Nokia was dead long before Microsoft thought about buying them.
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#10> It’s interesting to see how Nokia succumbed to the bad strategy that had almost killed Apple in ‘97. Well, here is one take; > Nokia’s ultimate fall can be put down to internal politics. In short, Nokia people weakened Nokia people and thus made the company increasingly vulnerable to competitive forces. When fear permeated all levels, the lower rungs of the organisation turned inward to protect resources, themselve…
I like to think that it was Microsoft which destroyed Nokia from the inside in order to make Windows phone great at last https://slate.com/technology/2013/09/microsoft-nokia-deal-a-...
Nokia was long gone when they were acquired.
They were beaten by RIM/BB
They tried gaming, didn’t succeed. Later on messaging, but didn’t have the platform (ping)