Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops phone production

Re:Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops ph... by unlinker on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @03:59PM (#11772629)

As the second article says, it's not Nokia building them, but letting another company ("HMD global Oy") build them under the Nokia brand.

This is similar to what they did with the somewhat recent Nokia N1 tablet: it was built by Foxconn.

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Re:Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops ph... by Ezhik on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @04:23PM (#11772758)

This HMD global was founded by an ex-Nokia employee.

Seems like the sleeper agents are being activated.

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Re:Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops ph... by greatnorthz on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @06:11PM (#11773543)

I long suspected something like that. Let MS purchase and restructure a sinking ship. Allow the talent to move on and do R&D on the cheap via startups. Once the restrictions of the deal end, see what's flourished and return to the consumer market. I assumed Jolla but this other entity got it.

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Re:Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops ph... by monkeyshelli on Thursday May 26, 2016 @07:33AM (#11777125)

Could the patents be a reason for this? As in, if you don't release a phone every Nth year; you might lose the rights to them?

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