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Re:Symbian Won by foobarian on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:44PM (#23644053)
Reading around on the Internet a bit I came upon this [1] which indicates Nokia's leadership was less engineering-driven than I thought.

[1] https://knowledge.insead.edu/strategy/who-killed-nokia-nokia...

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Re:Symbian Won by app4soft on Thursday June 25, 2020 @03:22PM (#23644445)
> Nokia's leadership was

Stephen Elop, Nokia President & CEO since September 2010.[0,1,2,3,4,5]

Since 2011 Symbian & Nokia starts its degradation under Elop 's "leadership".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#CEO_of_Nokia

[1] https://www.europeanceo.com/profile/stephen-elop

[2] https://www.smartcompany.com.au/business-advice/strategy/how...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/08/nokia-ste...

[4] https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/17/8796465/grand-theft-elop

[5] https://www.theregister.com/2018/02/15/elop_and_the_fall_of_...

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Re:Symbian Won by pjmlp on Friday June 26, 2020 @02:46AM (#23649378)
Which is to be expected when one gets a contract from the shareholders with a bonus clause if the CEO manages to devalue the company and sell it.
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