Recently Appointed Nokia CEO & One Brutally Honest Memo

A new memo by Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has been leaked and confirmed genuine; shows just how far behind Nokia really is in the smartphone market. 

He certainly pulls no punches in the memo, which has a number of facts laid out in what can only be a call to arms for Nokia:

  • "...there is intense heat coming from our competitors, more rapidly than we ever expected. Apple disrupted the market by redefining the smartphone and attracting developers to a closed, but very powerful ecosystem."
  • "They changed the game, and today, Apple owns the high-end range."
  • "Google has become a gravitational force, drawing much of the industry's innovation to its core."
  • "We have some brilliant sources of innovation inside Nokia, but we are not bringing it to market fast enough. We thought MeeGo would be a platform for winning high-end smartphones. However, at this rate, by the end of 2011, we might have only one MeeGo product in the market."
  • "...Symbian is proving to be an increasingly difficult environment in which to develop to meet the continuously expanding consumer requirements..."
  • "Our competitors aren't taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem."
  • "We poured gasoline on our own burning platform. I believe we have lacked accountability and leadership to align and direct the company through these disruptive times. We had a series of misses. We haven't been delivering innovation fast enough. We're not collaborating internally. Nokia, our platform is burning."

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    It is about time Nokia woke up and started producing mobile phones and platforms that can tackle the big guns of iPhone & Android - I've tried to use some of their tools and frankly they are woeful. Looking forward to a future where hopefully they're a viable development option again.

    Read the original story on enGadget.



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