Comments on: Nokia’s New CEO: Challenges

By: Schlick@gmail.com

Schlick@gmail.com — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:25:36 +0000

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By: The Technology newsbucket: Elop’s challenge, Web 2.0 corpses, Firefox heatmap and more | Richard Hartley

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[...] Some rights reservedA quick burst of 11 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamNokia's New CEO: Challenges >> Monday Note"For Nokia to win, Elop must change the hearts and minds of 123,000 people, make unpopular decisions [...]

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Income Entourage bonus — Tue, 17 May 2011 10:15:45 +0000

I am a huge supporter of Nokia… I hope they can do well all the time…

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[...] Nokia’s New CEO: Challenges >> Monday Note“For Nokia to win, Elop must change the hearts and minds of 123,000 people, make unpopular decisions and make them quickly: The smartphone business is moving much faster than when Nokia was king. “Is Elop up to the task?” [...]

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Krocan z Espoo a výhledy orlů « VÚČAKO — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:30:56 +0000

[...] obrození Symbianu se lidem z branže vyjevilo, když se novým CEO nestal Anssi Vanjoki. Ti prostořecí o věcech budoucích celkem otevřeně [...]

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What future for the Macintosh? | Monday Note — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:54:47 +0000

[...] dust settles. In the meantime, you can look back at past Monday Notes such as last September’s Nokia’s New CEO: Challenges or last February’s Mobile World Clusterf#^k. And, of course, Elop’s Burning Platform memo, [...]

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La apuesta de Nokia: ¿matrimonio con Microsoft? - ENTER.CO — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:28:03 +0000

[...] así, tal como lo han destacado analistas como Jean-Louis Gasée en Monday Note, el hecho es que Elop, quien venía desempeñándose como presidente de la División de Negocios de [...]

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[...] financieros de RIM. Siempre es interesante Mace, y siempre tengo la duda de si creerle o no; como Jean Louis Gassée (otro que suele tener opiniones interesantes), tiene buena prosa, en general mucha y buena información, y experiencia en la industria [...]

By: Tom B

Tom B — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 01:49:06 +0000

High positions at MSFT and Macromedia? I guess that’s the best they could do. I’d short NOK fast, just in case you have been frozen in a block of ice these past few years and haven’t gotten around to that yet.

By: Lucien

Lucien — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:06:38 +0000

Jean-Louis you’ve been away for too long ! “Change In Continuity.” was the
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing’s electoral slogan of 1974 (see http://www.well.ac.uk/cfol/giscard.asp) Chirac’s two mandates were”Continuity Without Change”

By: Whither Nokia? | Otto's Blog

Whither Nokia? | Otto's Blog — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:17:33 +0000

[...] 2007 Nokia’s shares have lost 75% of their value. What happened in 2007? Wasn’t that when the iPhone came out? Pure coincidence. And [...]

By: renaissance chambara | Ged Carroll - Links of the day

renaissance chambara | Ged Carroll - Links of the day — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:03:07 +0000

[...] Nokia’s New CEO: Challenges | Monday Note – interesting assessment by Gassée. It depends on whether you consider Elop as a candidate to lead Nokia back to market leadership or package it up with a bow for a sell-off or partnership (with Microsoft) a la Carol Bartz. I suspect Elop is the second option [...]

By: Hamranhansenhansen

Hamranhansenhansen — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:24:17 +0000

The one positive I can see for Nokia is Elop knows what a software company is, having worked at Microsoft and Macromedia. If he turns Nokia into a software company they could do well. That is exactly what Steve Jobs did since his return to Apple: he converted them into a software company.

In the past, software companies shipped on floppy disk or optical disc. Today, you ship on a storage chip, to which you might as well add another chip and a battery and a touchscreen to and ship the whole device. Especially when that ups your potential customers from 500 million nerds to 5 billion consumers.

Nokia still makes much more profit than all of Android combined. I don’t think they are in any way dead yet, but they have to become a peer to OS X and Windows, they have to build a ton of software.

By: Osma Ahvenlampi

Osma Ahvenlampi — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:14:22 +0000

Hi JLG, long time since we met in the Be days

Good analysis — much more in depth than I have had time to do. One thing in common from my notes on Friday: they indeed do not have the control analysts (and themselves) seem to think they’d lose by switching to Android.

But switching OS again doesn’t solve anything. The change is far harder. The way I see it, Elop should sit down on his CEO desk on Sep 20th, listen to an army of Nokiites for 10 days, and on October 1st, give two instructions:

1. Every business unit, development program, and division (of which there are too many), needs to shed 80% of program managers, whose main job today seems to be blocking progress by not making timely decisions. The rest should spend their time with the teams doing the work, not with each other.

2. Of the four (five?) operating systems Nokia develops (S40, S60 “legacy”, Symbian^3, Symbian^4, and Meego), only one will remain. The rest are killed immediately. Doesn’t matter how many already-in-development-for-3-years phone projects die alongside them. Doesn’t matter which one remains (arguably, only one is usable, and only one has a future, but they’re not the same one). Any one is better than focus divided between five. This is also why it doesn’t make sense to simply add Android, too.

It’s going to be a hard slog for the next 2-3 years anyway, but OPK should have done both of these when he took the reins — if he had, the company wouldn’t now need to go through the valley of death that’s fairly inevitable. As a Finn, I have to hope that a Canadian will have the courage to do what’s necessary for the company to return to greatness.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:49:12 +0000

@matt

Not really, Symbian is open source before Android’s even out.

What I am saying is, if we are comparing companies, shouldn’t we stick with companies?

By: Shaun

Shaun — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:22:22 +0000

@Rurik – whilst I agree mostly, I think Nokia already have most of that in hand. The changes in the last few months for developers have been great both with the Ovi Store and the developer tools. It still could be better but we’ll see what NokiaWorld brings starting tomorrow. In that regard, and with recent changes to the CEO, EVP of devices going and from what I’m hearing, the Chairman announcing stepping down in 2012, it’s interesting times for Nokia.

By: Rurik Bradbury

Rurik Bradbury — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:39:13 +0000

@Tek — agree about moving to Silicon Valley. The West Coast seems to build the best ecosystems — and that’s what Nokia needs above all else. Don’t quite agree on the visionary point: Andy Rubin has done a great job with Android; he’s just less public than Jobs.

@Shaun — developers care about ‘in practice’ more than in theory. Today Apple has sold over 100m iOS devices, with a highly consistent environment for apps, plus an affluent audience of frequent app-buyers. It’s a killer combo.
In contrast, Nokia has sold many more devices, but…
- no consistency of screen size
- no consistency of touch/non-touch
- no consistency of language (Apple is highly English-oriented)
- no track record of spending on apps
- no consistency of OS version
- no simple purchase experience
Those are just 6 big hurdles. When Nokia turns over a new leaf with the N8, it will hopefully tighten up the range of devices and specs going forward so that the promise of one QT app targeting all Nokia devices is fulfilled.
But that is in theory. In practice, it will be a long time before they can offer developers 100m devices to target with Apple-like consistency.

By: SockRolid

SockRolid — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:30:24 +0000

MeeGo is Nokia’s safe bet, not Android. The Oracle lawsuit has merit and there is legal precedent in Microsoft’s $20 million out-of-court settlement with Sun. And Google’s Sergey Brin has publicly stated that Chrome OS is Google’s future. He is preparing the world for the abandonment of Android.

By: matt

matt — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:29:53 +0000

@Ben – because you cant license Apple, RIM or Nokia. they build a product from scratch and sell it. Android and WM are not companies, theyre OS platforms licensed by many companies.

By: TektonikShift

TektonikShift — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:11:45 +0000

The business insider article misses the point.

Google Android is doing great w/o a “visionary”. Now out-shipping iPhone.

Samsung is the “go to guy” for the best in mobile technology; (a) Flash chips, (b) A4′s for iPhone, and (c) innovative Android phones & tablets. Samsung is #2 mobile vendor worldwide … all without some “visionary”.

Nokia can regain momentum in the mobile handsets if Elop can shake up the culture at Nokia.
One recommendation – relocate the smartphone team to silicon valley.

-Tek
https://twitter.com/TektonikShift

By: Shaun

Shaun — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:51:57 +0000

Sorry for the immediate second comment but after I posted I thought ‘Hang on a mo’…. Apple has multiple OS platforms to maintain – iOS, MacOS and whatever is in their iPods these days plus multiple form factors.

Google has Android (multiple versions) and Chrome.

HP has Windows and WebOS and rumour has it, Android too.

Microsoft has WinMo 6.x as well as WP7. It’s keeping 6.x going for phones that don’t fit the WP7 mould. Plus they’ve Zune’s OS and then their traditional OS development.

I think you’re being overly harsh on Nokia’s strategy especially when they own the most comprehensive cross platform development framework going – Qt.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:40:28 +0000

Nokia’s OS strategy is a little convoluted but not as much as you’re making out here Jean-Louis. They’ve still got S40 on the dumb-phones and a touch and non-touch version of Symbian S60 on some of the recent phones which seem to have been released as a stop gap because of Symbian^3 delays. New phones seem to be entirely Symbian^3 now. For example the C6 originally released with Symbian S60 v5 but the upgraded models of the C6 are getting Symbian^3.

Symbian^4 isn’t released yet. Neither is MeeGo.

The development platform for Symbian^3, Symbian^4 and MeeGo is the same – Qt. Developers only have to develop for ONE platform now.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:19:55 +0000

One thing weird about these graphs are, why Nokia, Apple and RIM are always singled out as companies, while Android and WinMo are always represented as a platform?

By: Nokia World in a Time of Flux — WhiteAfrican

Nokia World in a Time of Flux — WhiteAfrican — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:40:09 +0000

[...] are a lot of things going on within the world of Nokia right now. The Monday Note has a great overview of the big challenges facing Nokia right now, not least their incoming [...]

By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:58:51 +0000

“The market speaks louder every quarter”

Indeed it does – http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/F/07/GLB_SMPHN0710.gif

By: Rensburg

Rensburg — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:42:38 +0000

Very well written and researched. Why do we not get more such insightful articles. I will definitely be on the oulook for more articles by Mr Gassée

By: Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie)

Alexander Ainslie (@AAinslie) — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:34:46 +0000

@Jean-Louis:

On the software side, I think Nokia has a huge opportunity to lead in the emerging mobile banking and financial services sector.

Nokia has the footprint and penetration to become a formidable fully fledged bank by building on their investment in http://www.obopay.com – think: “M-Pesa on a Global scale”. They should acquire Obopay in totality and innovate like crazy in this domain.

See Sean Park’s post (of @nauiokaspark) where he articulates similar thinking: http://bit.ly/bAKzn4

In addition, Nokia should acquire http://www.Opera.com – I know directly from one of their largest shareholders that Nokia have considered this on and off for years. Nokia should hurry up and pull the trigger on Opera.

Definitely agree with your view that they should embrace Android.

http://twitter.com/aainslie

By: Avshalom

Avshalom — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:53:38 +0000

1. typo,you forgot the ‘c’: “former glory as the nec plus ultra of smartphones”
2. You are incorrect when you say: “A mere few weeks after the August launch, the Torch was heavily discounted.”. It has not been discounted. Amazon discounted it as they do with many other devices – on their own:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/17/blackberry-torch-half-price-claims-half-baked/
3. Last but not least, you included a link to one of the worst review of the Torch written by an Apple fanboy “Joshua Toplosky”. It would have made sense to refer to a more neutral review…

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