[Interest] Semi-OT: What could / should Elop / Nokia have done differently?

[Harri Pasanen]

On 06/22/2012 03:27 PM, Atlant Schmidt wrote:
>    I was very fond of the strategy that I*THOUGHT*  was
>    emerging within Nokia: Use Symbian to "hold the fort"
>    until Maemo/MeeGo was "ready for prime time".

I think this was what Vanjoki was advocating.  Unfortunately he lost the 
CEO race to Elop and then resigned.

Two small steps they should do now:

1.  Get Qt on Windows Phone 8.
2.  Get Qt on future Asha line.    These are the feature phones that 
were supposed to evolve to Meltemi.  Even without Meltemi they probably 
could be made to run Qt.

Nokia still has lots of hardware know how that should be worth 
something, not to mention networks.
It will be interesting to see the WP8 phones they should introduce this 
fall.

So I'd wager that Nokia will survive, but as a much smaller company.

/Harri