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Today 10 years ago I went to Poland to buy a Phone with pre installed #Firefox OS on. The Phone was a Alcatel One, so very shitty. Two years later I installed Firefox OS on my Nexus 5 instead.

It was a very good concept, but sadly rolled out on too shitty hardware so it never caught on.

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[-] matlag@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago

The N9 was killed by Stephen Elop, the new CEO coming straight from Microsoft with a mission: get Nokia bought off by MS.

Right from the start, he ran an explicit counter-advertisement campaign against the N9 and Meego. Whatever commercial success it would be, this would be the first and last device running MeeGo from Nokia, and there would be no support for MeeGo.

Nokia was to embrace Windows mobile OS, that turned out to be a total disaster. But indeed, after he tanked Nokia, it became cheap enough to bought by MS, as Nokia got both cheap and undsirable by any other big player due to its binding to MS bad mobile OS, and Elop got his VP status back there.

This is a shame in the history of mobile phones and OS!

Later, some former Nokia would start their own phone company reusing part of MeeGo. Jolla was born.

[-] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of the pre phone/tablet line with webOS and the way hp or better their short lived CEO Leo Apotheker killed it. That was such a shame great devices and great os.

[-] jawsua@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I remember Ars Technica had an article or series on his bad decisions called "Apotheker needs an Apothecary" and lit into him for all the dumb things he was saying and doing. I just don't see how you can have the manufacturing and branding behemoth HP was then, get giftwrapped Palm and webOS while RIM was still in the process of imploding, and fumble the bag so hard

[-] Darkhoof@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I still get mad at this. I had bought Nokias for most of my life and it was probably the biggest and best european tech company and it was destroyed by that idiot.

[-] matlag@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I resent him slightly less than the idiots who appointed him CEO. To be appointed, you need to come with a plan you present to the board. Who the hell thought "let's destroy everything that made Nokia successful so far and become a Nth Windows Phone maker!" was a good strategy??

https://seekingalpha.com/article/916271-how-stephen-elop-destroyed-nokia

Symbian OS still had a very large user base and some support from large customers. The N9 and MeeGo was getting better reviews and customer satisfaction reports than Samsung and Apple's phones! The obvious strategy was to navigate a transition between the legacy Symbian and a rising and promising MeeGo. But since his mandate was not to make Nokia successful but rather to have bought by MS, he could trash the business at will: made it cheaper for his real employer, MS.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/9/24/4766072/report-says-stephen-elops-contract-with-nokia-paid-him-to-fail

Seriously, that guy should have been jailed!!

[-] Darkhoof@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This situation was revolting in every way. They destroyed the best european tech company. They had everything. A music service, a maps service superior to Google Maps, mail service, everything. It was sickening.

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