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by wilhow 5534 days ago
The only thing strategic about "realigning workforce" and outsourcing your former core development team is to slowly wind the company down to a shell and then make the financial numbers look good on paper.

This way the CEO and board of directors can give themselves huge bonuses for "saving" the company. Then 5-8 years down the road, when no more can be squeezed out of the Nokia brand name, they will look for a merger as the next strategic move.
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arethuza 5534 days ago
You really think it will take 5 to 8 years? They have bet the company on Windows Phone 7 which already looked doomed.

I suspect in 5-8 years we will be talking about Nokia in the same way we talk about AltaVista, or at best they will sell the brand to some faceless manufacturing operation.

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tankenmate 5534 days ago
Nokia: We have moved on from shooting ourselves in the foot to shooting ourselves in the head.
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