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Re:The Engineer-Driven culture at Nokia and its problems by stcredzero on Saturday February 12, 2011 @07:39AM (#2209912)
I think your point is a very good one. But I think there are some important parallels to consider here.

Even though Windows was less popular with designers, Microsoft still dominated the business computer market in other areas. Sure, until recently their desktop OS didn't compare to what OS X or Linux offers, but there's a ton of people out there who aren't using OS like those.

I use a Macbook and friends are always ribbing me because I sometimes need to jump through hoops to read Word Docs and Excel Spreadsheets.

I'm just saying there's a whole world of people out there...

Come to think of it, Microsofties also ridiculed their competition.

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Re:The Engineer-Driven culture at Nokia and its problems by statictype on Saturday February 12, 2011 @08:10AM (#2209952)
Nice one. Obviously there are parallels with Microsoft. Both were big entrenched companies that got their lunch money stolen by Apple, but in both cases I reject the notion that Apple has been 'tearing them limb by limb'.
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