[bostik]

As the person who provided the soundbite about the Elopcalypse, I am still somewhat surprised to see it was quoted in full.

Various people came up with the term independently. I happened to be one. But I sure as hell do not claim to have been the first one. My early use of the term may have contributed to its spread among my friends and co-workers, but that's just how any meme or rumour gains its wings.

To provide some context, I am still a bit sour about the Elopcalypse. I was effectively deprived of a project we had been building towards for nearly five years. I stand by the quoted comment: the resulting destruction and turmoil were the best thing to happen to the Finnish ICT space. Best, but extremely painful.

[jmspring]

Former Nokia employee - lived in Helsinki in the early 2000s for a bit, current MSFT borg (TED/DX) (many, many years in between) -- the stories coming out of friends dealing with Elop appointment, HUT being merged with Aalto, and then the cascading fall out was always an interest.

Nokia always had (and through the legacy/current hardware (up to Icon), amazing hardware. The pivot the iPhone required and the software for such, takes time and resources -- apple ended up having the jump + resources. It was never clear to me if Nokia actually put the resources behind it.

[jpatokal]

> HUT being merged with Aalto

That happened in 2010, before the Elopcalypse got going, and you could quite well argue that it's HUT (15k students) that ate up Kauppis & TaiK (<5k combined).