All in the span of three days have we have had a quick uprising from Nokia shareholders and a shrug off from the CTO of Verizon stating they have no need for any Nokia Windows Phones.
This whole scuffle with Nokia shareholders was pretty ridiculous. I don’t know if any of these people have any business acumen (That is only showed by them backing down from their own threats within two days) but how in the world would an internal power struggle help the company stabilize and increase market share within the smart phone industry? If they were actually successful it would further hurt internal morale and set the technological superiority of the company back even further than it already is.
Thankfully the shareholders have backed off and seem to have buyed into managements overall strategy (and those that have not are selling their stock like crazy). You can’t expect everyone in the company to be happy about Nokias overall partnership with Microsoft. Internally this means that all of those developers for the Nokia mobile platforms are out of a job.
Sure you can feel bad about them and hate Nokia for making such a decision and putting so many people out of work but technically isn't it partially their fault? If they had done an adequate job and created a competitive product Nokia would be experiencing better growth and would not have made such a partnership with Microsoft. Call me evil but looking at it from a business perspective a fair amount of blame rests with those developers who are now so peeved off they are attempting to get labor unions to grant them severance in excess of 100,000 euro each.
As for Verizon's CTO, i guess it shows you the stance of the company against Windows (the whole Kin debacle). Still must be a bit of bad blood there.
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-The Marketing Ninja
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