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That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit (www.theregister.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They were on their way killing their phone line for a long time before that. They shouldn't have stuck with Symbian for so long.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

MeeGo was quite good! And the latest Symbian wasn't that bad either at the time, though I've heard the source code was all hacky (hence the creation of MeeGo).