This is not inovation, it's just a better product. The only thing that bothers me is the fact that they claim they invented the smartphone, they invented the tablet and so on, which is not true. But they make nice devices so we can jump over that.

Burning platform memo:
Besides, over the course of 2009–2010 (before Elop, right?), Motorola, Samsung, LG, and Sony Ericsson announced their withdrawal from Symbian in favour of alternative platforms including Google's Android, Microsoft's Windows Phone.
Sorry, I don't have any other information sources to dig into.
I don't know. Maybe, Elop didn't consider Microsoft a failure. Or maybe, he wants to decrease Android's and BlackBerry's market share before introducing a Nokia-made operating system. Either way, Nokia's image as good-hardware-maker remains, especially in sharp contrast with awful software on it. And when Jolla proves itself to be popular-successful enough, Nokia could easily release devices with Sailfish OS - if they wanted to, if Microsoft's software proved itself to be bad enough by then.

Android customised by a manufacturer isn't much different from 'pure' Android - except, 'pure' Android is considered faster, more consistent, more comfortable to use. Everybody has an Android, or a friend using Android. However, I have seen Windows Phone only inside a store - I don't know any person who uses Windows Phone. Windows Phone is a 'rarity', people can walk into store to take a look at Lumia just like they walk into a zoo to take a look at a three-eyed lizard.
Yes, their market share is low because people know how uncomfortable-to-use Microsoft's software is.
The large blue ones? Honestly, they are all thin fragile tablets-bricks with non-removable batteries.
Look up IS12T, the first waterproof Windows Phone and also the first to feature a 13.2 Megapixel camera.
Best wishes.

Lameiaman, i never said you mentioned it here.

After some time ago i re-read Elop's memo, it made almost perfect sense to me. Who still thinks it's pure bullcrap?

His assessments to Nokia's situation were spot-on.

Only the reaction that came to light afterwards (to go with WP) was what let the steamliner hit the iceberg.

First, first to burn. Thousands of Nokia employees, millions of Symbian, Maemo and MeeGo users.

This awards IMHO shows the decadence of Europe.

Me, I think it was utter bullcrap. It was a justification press release for the announcement that was to follow...

Yes, that one.

The former was inextricably linked to the latter, he had to be wildly melodramatic about NOKIA's current position in order to make a new strategy that had a very high likelihood of failure (i.e adopting Windows Phone) seem somehow better than the path they were already on.

You have to be extraordinarily gullible not to see through it. I knew he was a charlatan and what was about to happen the moment the 'burning platforms' memo was 'leaked'.

Don't forget we also had all the p155 and wind about Qt and 'the next billion' and MeeGo being part of the 'next disruption'. That was utter bullcrap too, he already knew he was going to shaft both on Microsoft's behalf, that just wasn't the appropriate moment to execute that particular part of his premeditated plan.

Everything he's said and done was to benefit Microsoft, even to the point of sabotaging the feature phone division. How could it make sense to kill Meltimi and leave the Ashas stranded on Series 40 / J2ME? Because Meltemi may well have proved superior to Windows Phone of course. Microsoft wouldn't like that.

He'd already surrendered NOKIA's smartphone division to Android and now he's doing the same for the feature phone division too.

Jukka Eklund should get an award for this Jolla marketing started last year:

https://twitter.com/jukkaeklund/stat...25945024425984

fight elop!