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		cookiecaper on July 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google’s Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo’s Chief Elop scrapped everything Nokia had dumped years of R&D into and turned the company into Microsoft's (Elop's former employer) puppet. Nokia could have made an instant comeback if they had just built a few semi-decent Android phones, but they are now locked in to Windows. Elop's case is atypical.

Tyrannosaurs on July 17, 2012 [–]

They had their own competent looking OS in the pipeline (which was available on a couple of the earlier Lumias).

I agree, I think Elop made bad decisions which were massively swayed by Elop's attachment to Microsoft.

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