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by distances 792 days ago
Finland has very few natural resources, mainly just forests. And the forestry industry experienced a major decline around the same time as Nokia did.

And there is a long border with Russia, one of the worst neighbours any country could have.
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guappa 792 days ago
Finland had 1 thing: nokia, and microsoft destroyed it.
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dagw 792 days ago
Looking at most relevant data it is hard to make an argument the Nokia is doing worse today that it was just before Microsoft bought it. Nokia's market cap is currently close to double what it was compared to the year before Microsoft 'destroyed' it.
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guappa 792 days ago
But count in % of phones that exist, and see how many pople of the current nokia work in finland.
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dagw 792 days ago
By the time Microsoft stepped in, Nokia's mobile phone market share had already plummeted, and they'd cut their Finish work force to probably a third of what it was at its peak. Yes Nokia is a shadow of its former self, but most of that happened before Microsoft [0].

Hell if you really wanted to you might even be able to make an argument that, with hindsight, Microsoft saved Nokia by letting it gracefully jettison it's failing phone business, get a much needed cash injection, and refocus on other parts of its business.

[0] Of course some argue that Microsoft actually took over the day Elop became CEO, and everything he did was part of some plan to sink Nokia so that Microsoft could buy its phone business on the cheap.

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tmottabr 792 days ago
Their downfall happened the day they decided go all in on Windows Phone instead of Android.. And that was 100% Elop doing..

But i don't believe it was a grand plan from MS to screw Nokia so they could buy it..

Some even suspect that MS just bought Nokia because Windows phone was not selling and Nokia was loosing money, so MS was afraid Nokia would turn to Android and they would loose their flagship devices..

So they needed to ensure a phone maker for Windows Phone and wanted go into making their own phones, Nokia had a good brand that they had a good relationship with and Elop was still there to make things easy..

On the other hand, if Nokia had focused on Android from the start or at least had devices on both systems, they had the potential to be the leaders on Android phones by now..

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guappa 789 days ago
Remember that nokia was already selling linux phones before it switched to windows.

It was a costly and useless move.

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