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Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business by vardump on Friday July 29, 2016 @03:36AM (#12185463)
> They never considered the importance off software, hardware was always number one for Nokia.

Oh, but they pretended to. Just like Samsung today.

Top management really needs to have people with deep and true understanding about software.

And perhaps top management needs also someone with a good sense about design. Many of them seem think they're Steve Jobs... Their failing tends to always be very consumer oriented (meaning they're not makers, maybe they're just using nicely designed products) and shallow understanding of the problem and especially possibility / innovation space.

Samsung, our new Nokia. I wonder if next chapters play out likewise.

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Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business by proyb2 on Friday July 29, 2016 @05:32AM (#12185757)
Nokia was seem like an old generation mobile manufacturer after Google released Android to the world, computing was then staggering that both Apple and Samsung are competing and own countless patented and fabrication is quite a profitable for their survival. Most consumers will go either Samsung or iPhone.
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