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A comment on Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (2011). Parent comment

Re:Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (2011) by trimbo on Saturday September 03, 2022 @02:00AM (#32699177)
> I think it’s simple enough to see why Nokia thought Windows would be the right choice. It was far more polished than Android at the time

Everyone knew at the time Elop had made a terrible choice crafted to sell Nokia to Microsoft. Here's a nice HN comment I saved that was written a few days after the memo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2206437

And then the Nokia transition was supposed to take two years! Posting a memo like this and then taking two years to transition while expecting customers to buy inventory on the old platform? That's just a way to kill a company.

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Re:Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (2011) by pjmlp on Saturday September 03, 2022 @02:36AM (#32699347)
Because the Nokia board had a nice bonus clause for the case he managed to sell the company, and sell he did.

He was after all reaching its targets.

https://www.slashgear.com/stephen-elops-contract-revealed-as...

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