Recent content by warmi

Yes, and the sale happened because everything was cool and dandy and Nokia and investors were just looking for a fun adventure... You are invested emotionally in that crap - there is no point discussing it with you.

Yeah, Windows phones were pretty good just not exceptional enough to make a dent in Adroid/iOS markets.

There was nothing there to be lost - this was a dying Dinosaur type of company that completely failed to adapt and thus was terminated - it happens all the time.

That was just EU .. they way they seem to be suing every major US tech company these days, you can't really take them too seriously.

So ? Paying their fair share of what ? Major governments can legislate to their heart content anything they want , including cure for cancer and other serious ailments and overall happiness .. .unless there is Amazon or Google or thousands of others around ... nothing will happen.

I would consider that to be a virtue ... the less money goes in taxes the better the societies end up.

The interface is in objective c. Stupid.

Stronger consumer protections? Growing up in EU and then moving to US, personally I see all these "consumer friendly protections" as BS. I will take "no questions asks returns" which are the norm in the US, over everything they have over there.

Being asleep at the wheel never ends well ...

Numbers or not everything. With average salary in China being about $500 per month, we are talking here entirely different market dynamics.

ToTTenTranz seems to be emotionally invested in Nokia and for some reason cannot accept the basic fact that companies routinely fuck up - no need for any sort of conspiracies.

If things were going swimmingly at Nokia .. why did they even bothered bringing Elop onboard ?

Of course it did. Everything changed after iPhone came out and by that I mean just about every damn phone company out there changed their physical design and user interaction to match that of iPhone. It clearly redefined what a smart phone is supposed to look like and how it is supposed to...

Galaxy Nexus.

Nope, but it means Americans have lot of disposable income, and thus can buy more expensive phones, upgrade to new models more often and have lot more money to spend on apps etc... Ironically, for a nominally communist country, China is a lot more polarized in terms of individual incomes -...