Microsoft's Stephen Elop moves to Nokia -- what a waste(betanews.com)

3 pointsby mindblink16 lat temu2 comments

Microsoft's Stephen Elop moves to Nokia -- what a waste

http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Microsofts-Stephen-Elop-moves-to-Nokia-what-a-waste/1284136468

2 comments

rbanffy16 lat temu

IMHO, Nokia has to give up on Maemo/Moblin, keep Symbian (but fix it, please) for low-end smartphones (because in a couple years that's the only kind of phone there will be) and adopt Android on the high-end smartphone line and differentiate on hardware (theirs has always been excellent). Maemo/Moblin is going nowhere fast and there is no space for more OSs in this space right now.

If they can fix Symbian and make cheap smartphones that are feature-competitive with Androids, they can also bypass telcos and sell direct to customers.

But that's just my advice. It's unlikely he will follow it.

IMorgothI1216 lat temu

Symbian is a dead broken horse with an outdated kernel. They should instead buy RIM or license Android.