From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/22/2026 1:40 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   One of the problems I observed was that Nokia clung on far too long   
   to Symbian, in which you developed apps using a half-baked version of   
   C++. It was difficult, to say the least.   
      
   'There's an app for that.' didn't work for Nokia phones.   
      
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