nixCraft π§speaking of iconic brands ...
Jonly@nixCraft nah Nokia lost with Symbian.
The Lumia Phones and Windows Phone was pretty good but died because low market share and no third party apps.
DougMerritt (logπ
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Nokia self-destructed before acquisition.
As a separate note: IIRC they got a new CEO who was thought in some quarters to have deliberately ruined the company in order to reduce its valuation, in order to give Microsoft a good acquisition price.
(I have neither proof, nor do I think it's a mere conspiracy theory)
@dougmerritt @Jonly I remember reading that theory on Slashdot.
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@nixCraft @dougmerritt @Jonly That was called the Elopocalypse.
Nokia had a cool Gtk/GNOME based Maemo OS, but they decided to:
- Start from scratch with Qt (back to square one)
- Look at their belly button, think that they were the very best in the world, don't have any autocritic and completely ignore Android and iPhone. Both ended up eating up all the market share and making Maemo obsolete.
Nokia had a cool Gtk/GNOME based Maemo OS, but they decided to:
- Start from scratch with Qt (back to square one)
- Look at their belly button, think that they were the very best in the world, don't have any autocritic and completely ignore Android and iPhone. Both ended up eating up all the market share and making Maemo obsolete.