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justsomehnguytoday at 10:00 AM1 replyview on HN

Nokia fanboys would never accept anything other than Elop/MS fault.

Even if you shove the sales values in their face and ask to explain why the revenue was dropping for a 3rd year by the time of the Burning Platform memo.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/267819/nokias-net-sales-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_mobile_ph...

And it's always N900 and 'dEvelOpmeNt hIstoRy'.

I'm pretty sure what most of them didn't even read the memo, literally.


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adjejmxbdjdntoday at 1:17 PM

Because they didn’t sell Android phones? More specifically, they didn’t have phones that ran an OS for which all the apps were being built, which practically meant Android since Apple wasn’t licensing iOS.

Going to Windows Phone 7 didn’t solve the fundamental problem they needed to solve. The ecosystem, while also eliminating the ability to differentiate or innovate.

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