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LurkerJ on 04 February 2014
Soleron said:
LurkerJ said:
Soleron said:
Gehirnkrampf said:
CEO of a device manufacturer, so he knows at least a good bunch about his new position.

There has never been a worse CEO for a device manufacturer in terms of change in revenue and share price from the start to the end of their term.

Nokia? It could've been worse.

How.


By sticking to Symbian



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HumdrumPie on 04 February 2014

I wish Xbox all the best then :)



LurkerJ on 04 February 2014
DirtyP2002 said:

good choice, but isn't that old news?!
He saved Nokia and has a proven track record. It just makes sense.


He isn't the hero some of you make of him either. He did OK. It could've been worse. It could've been better.



DirtyP2002 on 04 February 2014
HumdrumPie said:

kowenicki, if I am wrong about Mr. Elop then I apologize. I don't keep up with business news at all. All my info. comes from a wiki :

During the 3 years Elop was Nokia CEO, Nokia revenues fell 40%, Nokia profits fell 95%, Nokia market share collapsed in smartphones from 34% to 3.4%, Nokia's credit rating went from A to junk, Nokia's share price dropped 60% in value and Nokia's market capitalization lost 13 Billion dollars in value.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop

When Elop joined Nokia, they already missed the smartphone-hype.
Their symbian was dead and on its way out. There was nothing he could have done.

After he joined, he made Nokia re-focus, created the Lumia and finally found their place in the smartphone market.

Under his leadership Nokia changed from a former tech-giant close to bankruptcy to a smaller but healthy company. He saved their asses.



Imagine not having GamePass on your console...

daredevil.shark on 04 February 2014
DirtyP2002 said:
HumdrumPie said:

kowenicki, if I am wrong about Mr. Elop then I apologize. I don't keep up with business news at all. All my info. comes from a wiki :

During the 3 years Elop was Nokia CEO, Nokia revenues fell 40%, Nokia profits fell 95%, Nokia market share collapsed in smartphones from 34% to 3.4%, Nokia's credit rating went from A to junk, Nokia's share price dropped 60% in value and Nokia's market capitalization lost 13 Billion dollars in value.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop

When Elop joined Nokia, they already missed the smartphone-hype.
Their symbian was dead and on its way out. There was nothing he could have done.

After he joined, he made Nokia re-focus, created the Lumia and finally found their place in the smartphone market.

Under his leadership Nokia changed from a former tech-giant close to bankruptcy to a smaller but healthy company. He saved their asses.


Yeah. He saved nakia. He is not bad as others think.



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disolitude on 04 February 2014

This is awesome news.

He is one of the most intelligent, well spoken, friendly and capable executives around.



Drakrami on 04 February 2014
kowenicki said:

....also at least try and show a modicum of background knowledge

Surface, Phone and Xbox isnt 3 divisions... its one.

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So the dude who is designing the Microsoft Phone is also secretly designing the Xbox1? No? Then it is 3 divisions. Get some logic. 



DirtyP2002 on 04 February 2014
Drakrami said:
kowenicki said:

....also at least try and show a modicum of background knowledge

Surface, Phone and Xbox isnt 3 divisions... its one.

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So the dude who is designing the Microsoft Phone is also secretly designing the Xbox1? No? Then it is 3 divisions. Get some logic. 


Projects are not divisions my friend.

Read the financial reports, come back and say you are sorry.



Imagine not having GamePass on your console...

Fusioncode on 04 February 2014

Hmm, I do like my Nokia Lumia. Great phone.



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

Mummelmann on 04 February 2014

*Thatescalatedquickly.gif*

This thread is on fire.