Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Nokia's Burning Platform
Posted by Brad Wasson in "Windows Phone Talk" @ 07:30 PM
"Overall, the communique laments Nokia's lateral movement while Apple and Google have started eating its lunch on the mid- and high end and Shenzhen-based off brands have started to cut into its traditional dominance in emerging markets, leaving Espoo with virtually zero market leadership. It's a stark revelation that seems befitting of a man brought in from the outside -- he's neither Finnish, nor raised in the Nokia system -- and he promises to start revealing the way forward this Friday at the company's Capital Markets Day event where grandiose plans have been unveiled in the past."
Engadget has published the contents of an intriguing communique from the new CEO of Nokia to its employees. It's certainly one of the most interesting "internal" communications that has been made public in some time. While both a frank and open assessment and commentary on the mobile phone industry and Nokia's place in it, there are also a number of inferred messages that we can discern. First, though, are some choice quotes from the communique.
