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It's goofy as long as Nokia is truly a company facing a precipice.

The first thing Steve Jobs did when he got back to Apple was utterly gut the company of every single project that wasn't advancing the company's future. That's how you come back from the brink.

Or you design fonts. It just feels like moving around deck chairs to me. They don't have the luxury of dicking around on fonts. When your house is on fire, you don't pause to fold your socks.



It's goofy as long as Nokia is truly a company facing a precipice.

Is this true?

I know they dropped the ball recently on smart phones but they still have a big market on dumb/feature phones. And there's a whole world of people who don't use or want a smart phone.


The CEO thinks it's true.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/nokia-ceo-stephen-elop-ra...

Taking a status quo position and building their business around a commodity that was hot 10 years ago doesn't seem like the right way to guarantee Nokia's future.


> When your house is on fire, you don't pause to fold your socks.

What if the only way to douse the fire is to convince the firefighters that your house is worth saving?




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