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Five ways to rescue Windows Phone

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Andrew Orlowski

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2 February 2012

Windows Phone might be the most impressive bit of software Microsoft has produced – but it isn’t setting the world on fire. The iPhone and Android go from strength to strength – the latter proliferating so widely even Google doesn’t know how many Android systems are out there. (It can’t count the Chinese forks…

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Perhaps there’s no ‘Third Ecosystem’?

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Andrew Orlowski

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11 January 2012

There’s a whiff of something – it isn’t desperation, more like earnest exasperation – around Microsoft’s phone business these days Humiliatingly, Nokia was forced to deny rumours last week that it was planning to break up and sell its crown jewels to Microsoft. Normally a company can remain impervious to Twitter-born gossip, particularly from a…

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Don’t blame Elop or Microsoft for Nokia’s catastrophic fall from grace

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Andrew Orlowski

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2 June 2011

Pundits this week are describing Nokia’s fall from grace as one of the greatest corporate car-crashes of all time. But here’s an unfashionable view. Nokia’s problem is not Stephen Elop, or his strategy. Its problem is it didn’t have Stephen Elop, or his strategy, in place two years ago.… Read More

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Nokia grabs control of Symbian, downsizes Foundation

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Andrew Orlowski

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8 November 2010

Nokia is taking over the governance of Symbian, leaving the non-profit Foundation as a vestigial organisation in name only.… Read More

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Nokia ends cruel and unusual ‘Symbian programming’ practices

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Andrew Orlowski

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22 October 2010

Nokia has bowed to international pressure and agreed to end the cruel and unusual practice of programming natively for the Symbian OS. It still wants developers to target Symbian, but using the more humane Qt APIs instead. Nokia has also torn up the OS roadmap, and will speed up the delivery of new functionality to…

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When Dilbert came to Nokia

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Andrew Orlowski

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14 October 2010

You may have had your fill of Nokia analysis and features, but I’d like to draw your attention to one more – one that’s very special. The Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat has published a report based on 15 interviews with senior staff. It reads like the transcript to an Oscar-winning documentary where the narrative thread…

Tag: nokia

Five ways to rescue Windows Phone

Perhaps there’s no ‘Third Ecosystem’?

Don’t blame Elop or Microsoft for Nokia’s catastrophic fall from grace

Nokia grabs control of Symbian, downsizes Foundation

Nokia ends cruel and unusual ‘Symbian programming’ practices

When Dilbert came to Nokia