From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:00:46 -0500, Cryptoengineer wrote:   
      
   > Soon after I left, Nokia died, refusing to update their smartphone   
   > technology to Apple/Android standards.   
      
   To be fair, there was no way anybody could “update to Apple standards”   
   without being sued by Apple.   
      
   As for (initially) spurning Android, blame it on their CEO of the   
   time, Stephen Elop. He came from Microsoft, and he seemed to see it as   
   his job to cosy his new fiefdom up to his ex-employer as closely as   
   was physically possible. So he committed Nokia utterly and completely   
   to Windows Phone, ignoring any suggestion that such a hacky adaptation   
   of desktop-centric technology might not do so well in the mobile   
   market.   
      
   When he took over Nokia, though, there was a group in the company   
   already working on a Linux-based phone, the N9. He was too late to   
   kill the project, but he was able to ensure that there would never be   
   any follow-on products in that series, or even much of a manufacturing   
   run.   
      
   So the N9 came out in very limited markets, to rave reviews. It   
   promptly sold out, and that was the end of the one bright spot the   
   company enjoyed under Elop.   
      
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