“Esli by tol’ko bylo dostatochno poter nogu…”

Yeah, they’d just send that soldier to the its death on crutches.

Stopping that deal would have made the world a lot better place, actually! N9 was awesome, and during the first half a year of Windows Phone based Nokia phones, N9 sold more than all of those combined. Even though N9 was never advertised anywhere at all!

It was simply a killer product that people wanted to use so much that no advertising was necessary.

Nokia’s leadership style grew increasingly more and more authoritarian. And disconnected from the user experience, or even dev experience. I don’t think there’s really something like that happening in EU nor Fediverse.