Hello List! Most of us have been following and talking about this whole Nokia / Microsoft thing. A couple of recent discussions on this list got me thinking about it again:
[Interest] Is Nokia officially done with Qt? http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/interest/2012-June/002454.html [Interest] Qt on Windows Phone 8 http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/interest/2012-June/002703.html I would like to ask a related, but somewhat different question: Clearly Nokia and Elop were and are facing a big business challenge. What might they have done differently? I'm hoping to avoid comments like this or that company is bad / stupid / evil. It's easy enough to say that some folks did the wrong thing, but harder to say, okay, here's what they could have done differently. I think that it's arguably the case that: Nokia missed the iPhone revolution therefore faced a significant threat to their business therefore needed to make a dramatic (desperate?) move so they joined forces with Microsoft Now I like to hate on Microsoft as much as the next guy, and so on and so forth, but what might Elop have done differently? It's his job to try to save Nokia (or as much of Nokia as he can), and not his job to try to save Qt in particular. It's not like Nokia could have partnered with Apple. (Or maybe they could have. If somebody thinks that could have been the case, that's exactly the kind of discussion I'm looking for.) It's easy but not very helpful to say things like everybody's an idiot or so-and-so is a Microsoft tool or Nokia should have invented the iPhone before Apple did. I would like to approach this like a Harvard Business School case study: Let's say you were appointed CEO of Nokia instead of Elop back then. What -- in the face of the very real challenges Nokia faced -- would you have done? And a follow-up question: Let's say you are appointed to replace Elop now. What -- given whatever water is already under the bridge, and in the face of the very real challenges Nokia faces now -- would you do now? Thanks, and best regards. K. Frank _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
