Comment by sirkneeland

sirkneeland Apr 25, 2014 parent

Thank you for the kind words. Yes, my Finnish friends (and thanks to Nokia I have many) have expressed similar sentiments about when Nokia "died" to them. But for me it hit me today, when as I walked out the doors of the office I realized that while I would walk out of the same doors ~24 hours later, I would never walk out the doors of Nokia ever again.

nyrina Apr 25, 2014

What really struck me, was that for the first time, even though I've read it a thousand times before, was the fact that Nokia had one of those impossible goals.

Connecting people, is somewhat like the Microsoft vision of giving everyone a personal computer. And while there are people in certain parts of the 3rd world that doesn't have mobile phones, I would say Nokia did an amazing job to get a mobile phone into everyone's hands.

My dad worked for Ericsson, so I've never owned a Nokia phone, you were the "evil rivals" after all, but I bow my head to Nokia for what they did, for how many people they connected with mobile phones.

Nokia might not have been the company that profited from SmartPhones, but they were the company that created the market for SmartPhones.

nextos Apr 25, 2014

Nokia was one of the smartphone pioneers with their 770 Internet Tablets. It's hard to understand why they embraced Microsoft when the last product from this line, the N9, was so widely acclaimed and IMHO doomed to succeed.

savv Apr 25, 2014

I work for Ericsson - we are now allowed other phones after the partnership with Sony dissolved.. That said, the patent lawsuits related to Samsung have previously interfered with the selection.

jacquesm Apr 25, 2014

What an excellent way to ignore valuable input.

If your employees would rather have your competitors product then you need to get to work rather than to forbid them to use it you need to make it so they would prefer to use their own.

nyrina Apr 25, 2014

Back then, Ericsson (And later, Sony Ericsson) was working really hard to make great phones, as well, and they certainly did. I never felt like I was lacking with my Ericsson phones even if it wasn't the same as everyone else's Nokia 3310.

Just like it's hard to make the new Facebook, it was hard to beat Nokia. Remember, back then, everyone was using Nokia 3310. It didn't just take a better product to become the thing everyone wanted to have, because everyone didn't want a mobile phone. They wanted a Nokia mobile phone.

nyrina Apr 25, 2014

I do not know much of how it is now. My dad went to Aastra Technologies 5+ years ago. I did enjoy being one of the first boys in school to get a phone, even though everyone followed up with getting a Nokia 3310 and I was left with the "unpopular" phone.

dmm Apr 25, 2014

"There is always a last time for everything."

- Arthur C. Clarke in "The Nine Billion Names of God"

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