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by lyndonh 4371 days ago
It was developed before or after Elop's burning platform speech ?
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Elop's burning platform speech (memo, really) was from February 2011.

So the Nokia X came way, way after...

It was a rhetorical question.

But it's not necessarily true that Nokia X came "way after". Nokia could have put the project on hold when they started serious negotiations with Microsoft.