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What happened to Nokia?

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[–] mysteriouswineglass@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

I just found my old BlackBerry Bold… I miss that thing!

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Motorola phones are not American anymore, the phone part was bought by Lenovo and is now 100% Chinese.
So for 2025 it's only Samsung and Apple on the list that are not Chinese.

[–] 7rokhym@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 hours ago

TBF, Motorola is a bit misleading. Nothing against the product, (I love my RAZR), but they were basically diminished to a brand-name that is now owned by Lenovo.

[–] genau@europe.pub 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Microsoft happened to Nokia.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They were already losing before MS bought them.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Elop came from MS and always seemed like he was there to sabotage Nokia

[–] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

sabotage

Microsoft's interest in Nokia was being able to compete with what is now a duopoly between Google and Apple in phones. They wanted to own a mobile platform. I am very confident that they did not want their project to flop. That being said, they'll have had their own concerns and interests. Maybe Nokia would have done better to go down the Apple or Google path, but for Microsoft, the whole point was to get Microsoft-platform hardware out there.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 6 points 10 hours ago

Microsoft wanted a platform... for Windows CE, not Nokia's MeeGo or Symbian. That was the problem. Elop destroyed Nokia to get the only the name.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Maybe sabotage isn't the right word, but his decisions seemed to be more for Microsoft's benefit than for Nokia's.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 14 hours ago

Mistake after mistake after mistake.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago