[Sheflug] Nokia

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Last week and in previous meetings there is/was a recurring theme 
where someone else pulls out a mobile phone from their pockets and 
says something like "Android!  Great aren't they!".    The Linux 
desktop marches on.  Meanwhile the same people are being heard to say 
that there was a time when Nokia made mobile phones....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13714017

" Nokia's chief technology officer Rich Green has taken a leave of 
absence from the mobile phone giant.  An official Nokia statement said 
he had left to resolve a "personal matter" and gave no date for his 
return.  However, a Finnish newspaper quoted sources inside Nokia 
saying he had left because of differences over strategy and would not 
return.  Mr Green was known to champion the MeeGo mobile operating 
system which Nokia recently sidelined.  That decision was brought 
about by Nokia boss Stephen Elop's decision to adopt Microsoft's 
Windows Phone software for its smartphones.  "

So, there you go.  People thought I was a raving loony ten years ago 
for banging on about Linux.  We now find it's everywhere :)

-- 
Richard

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