<story><title>Today was the last day of Nokia as we knew it</title><url>http://kneeland.me/2014/04/24/the-end/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frik</author><text>The Nokia fate will be remembered as hostile takeover. Everything worked out in the favor of Microsoft in the end. Though Windows Phone&amp;#x2F;Tablet have low market share, a lot lower than expected.&lt;p&gt;* Stephen Elop the former Microsoft employee (head of the Business Division) and later Nokia CEO with his infamous &amp;quot;Burning Platform&amp;quot; memo: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#CEO_of_Nokia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Stephen_Elop#CEO_of_Nokia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* Some former Nokia employees called it &amp;quot;Elop = hostile takeover of a company for a minimum price through CEO infiltration&amp;quot;:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://gizmodo.com/how-nokia-employees-are-reacting-to-the-microsoft-takeo-1243832372&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gizmodo.com&amp;#x2F;how-nokia-employees-are-reacting-to-the-m...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kyrra</author><text>But Nokia was a company that was already starting to falter when Elop came on board.  What else could the company have done to survive?  Their options seem limited from what we know about the marketplace.  They could have release an android phone, but then they just would have been fighting for a piece of the pie that Samsung, Moto, and other phone makers are eating.  They could have stayed with their phone OS and probably would have had just about the same fate as picking up Windows Mobile.&lt;p&gt;Maybe they would have had more sales with an Android phone, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure it would have made a bit enough difference to prevent this buyout.  Elop set Nokia up to be bought out by being a major windows phone maker.  It may have been a better long-term bet than Android.</text></comment>
<story><title>Today was the last day of Nokia as we knew it</title><url>http://kneeland.me/2014/04/24/the-end/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frik</author><text>The Nokia fate will be remembered as hostile takeover. Everything worked out in the favor of Microsoft in the end. Though Windows Phone&amp;#x2F;Tablet have low market share, a lot lower than expected.&lt;p&gt;* Stephen Elop the former Microsoft employee (head of the Business Division) and later Nokia CEO with his infamous &amp;quot;Burning Platform&amp;quot; memo: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#CEO_of_Nokia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Stephen_Elop#CEO_of_Nokia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* Some former Nokia employees called it &amp;quot;Elop = hostile takeover of a company for a minimum price through CEO infiltration&amp;quot;:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://gizmodo.com/how-nokia-employees-are-reacting-to-the-microsoft-takeo-1243832372&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gizmodo.com&amp;#x2F;how-nokia-employees-are-reacting-to-the-m...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tinco</author><text>Lower than expected? Whose expectance? Given Microsofts track record in mobile devices I think no one expected Microsoft to really be able to compete. And given Nokia&amp;#x27;s track record in smart phones, nobody expected Nokia to be able to push Microsoft up either. But as it is now, it seems they&amp;#x27;ve actually been able to. They&amp;#x27;ve managed to punch a small but significant hole in the Android market, against all odds, by building some truly excellent products.&lt;p&gt;Who&amp;#x27;d have thought Microsoft would some day produce an integrated mobile product that you could prefer over an Apple product without being made out a fool?</text></comment>