Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones (2017)

Re:Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones ... by dash2 on Monday December 21, 2020 @03:19AM (#25493069)

How did it do compared to the iPhone?

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Re:Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones ... by romwell on Monday December 21, 2020 @03:25PM (#25499159)

Great question!

Compared to iPhone, N9 had a practically zero marketing budget, and an announcement at launch that the platform has no future as Nokia is going all-in on a Microsoft partnership.

As far as an apples-to-oranges comparison can be made, N9 did great.

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Re:Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones ... by dash2 on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @05:14AM (#25504753)

Must be hard to be an engineer and have management destroy your beautiful project. “Bridge on the river Kwai.”

However, management had reasons. There was no room for a third platform.

I also note the unfalsifiability of some of these claims. On the one hand if N9 beat the Windows phone, that shows how awesome it was. On the other hand, if it was destroyed by the iPhone, well, it was sabotaged.

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