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Metrication posted:huge xbone exclusive guess we know what the next bubsy 3d is
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Stephen elope the dude who convinced Microsoft to buy Nokia is now leaving ms bravo dude and peace http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2015/06/17/nokias-ex-ceo-stephen-elop-is-leaving-microsoft/
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PleasureKevin posted:Stephen elope the dude who convinced Microsoft to buy Nokia is now leaving ms what was that term the media coined for what he did to nokia
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Jun 17, 2015 15:48
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PleasureKevin posted:Stephen elope the dude who convinced Microsoft to buy Nokia is now leaving ms lol he didnt convince ms to buy nokia. this is basically what happened: - dude quits ms and becomes ceo of nokia - dumps basically everything nokia has been working on (including their symbian followup, meego) in favor of nokia using windows phone - nokia marketshare and stock mysteriously plummet - ms buys nokia, elop joins ms again and gets a crazy bonus & similar position to the one he had before he left
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Jun 17, 2015 15:51
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thats ownage
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Jun 17, 2015 16:14
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stephen elop died on the way to his home planet
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Jun 17, 2015 16:33
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poor finland. now they have to fall back on the other things they are known for: brutally murdering christian missionaries, and destroying soviet tanks with logs, crowbars, and Molotov cocktails
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Jun 17, 2015 16:35
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i wonder if there are russians who still hold a grudge over what happened when they tried to invade
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Jun 17, 2015 16:37
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hillary no  quote:Unrelated to the engineering restructuring changes, Chief Insights Officer Mark Penn has decided to pursue another venture outside Microsoft and will be leaving the company in September.
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Jun 17, 2015 17:04
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duTrieux. posted:i wonder if there are russians who still hold a grudge
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Jun 17, 2015 17:21
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heads rolled today
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Jun 17, 2015 19:04
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El_Elegante posted:heads rolled today if by that you mean "it was announced that heads will gently roll at some unspecified point this fall cushioned by giant piles of money" then sure
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Jun 17, 2015 19:07
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like meego wasnt going to crash horribly anyway 3 years late with no unique features and developed by a hardware company with no previous experience writing real software? if only they had kept going they could be as successful as blackberry
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Jun 17, 2015 19:36
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so the same result as going winpho?
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Jun 17, 2015 19:42
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yes but at least they got some money from ms
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Jun 17, 2015 19:43
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if you look at the hand nokia was playing before elop joined they could have done a lot worse
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poty posted:like meego wasnt going to crash horribly anyway yeah really for a very liberal definition of "worked" there's only one mobile linux initiative that worked, and it's still dog poo poo from a dog butt even compared to windows pho, let alone iOS
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Jun 17, 2015 19:54
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in like 2010 someone who used to work at nokia wrote a big long blogpost at how busted their software development was, they had a full team of product, design and devs for each handset and no mandate to align them at all [and this is when they had 30+ models going at a time]
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Jun 17, 2015 20:15
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graph posted:what was that term the media coined for what he did to nokia nokia'd
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Jun 17, 2015 20:18
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qirex posted:in like 2010 someone who used to work at nokia wrote a big long blogpost at how busted their software development was, they had a full team of product, design and devs for each handset and no mandate to align them at all [and this is when they had 30+ models going at a time] pretty much like there was some sort of core team in Finland making base s60 (but it was still platform specific or something) and then yeah a team to take that (somewhat broken) core and make the software for the phone we were making I worked there for an 8month co-op and during that time there was 1 major corporate reorganization and 1 or 2 minor ones
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Jun 17, 2015 20:24
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Back in the day Nokia released one new phone model per week. Most were dumbphones, but still
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Jun 17, 2015 20:24
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qirex posted:in like 2010 someone who used to work at nokia wrote a big long blogpost at how busted their software development was, they had a full team of product, design and devs for each handset and no mandate to align them at all [and this is when they had 30+ models going at a time] yyyuuuppppp smartphones made that way of doing poo poo unsustainable, and if you're taking the number of software loads you build and support from 30 to 1, why not just go down to 0 at that point
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Jun 17, 2015 20:24
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the standard kalleboo/mroach lament was that all these defunct euro dumphone vendors made like one decent phone with good features but spread it out among a dozen kinda poo poo phones the reason iPhone was the first good phone wasn't because it had all the features, but because it had most of them and there's not some ridiculous matrix of which model comes with which
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Jun 17, 2015 20:26
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the sad part is they knew where they needed to go and just hosed up royally like the official line was that "we don't make phones, we make multimedia computers that are connected to the Internet and happen to make phone calls", and they were saying this in 2005
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Jun 17, 2015 20:27
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holy poo poo his tiny baby hands are freaking me out
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Jun 17, 2015 20:29
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im the retarded emover on a 50 year old man
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Jun 17, 2015 20:30
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I like joe
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Jun 17, 2015 20:31
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microsoft has a clippy suit lol
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DuckConference posted:the sad part is they knew where they needed to go and just hosed up royally yeah and i had some friends with some fancy nokias back then but they just never made the effort to make them work/popular on american networks and by the time 3g started rolling out in a big way it was too late, iPhone had arrived
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Jun 17, 2015 21:00
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pram posted:microsoft has a clippy suit lol that's what you have to wear if you're near the bottom of the stack ranking
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Jun 17, 2015 21:00
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seriously, man. look at that poo poo the man looks like peter dinklage in a hot topic
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Jun 18, 2015 00:32
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Peter dinklage is actually somewhat goodlooking though
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Cocoa Crispies posted:the standard kalleboo/mroach lament was that all these defunct euro dumphone vendors made like one decent phone with good features but spread it out among a dozen kinda poo poo phones the best was when they started referring to them by womens names. it was "less confusing" to call it wilma.
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Sudo Echo posted:the best was when they started referring to them by womens names. it was "less confusing" to call it wilma. lol ya
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THC posted:Peter dinklage is actually somewhat goodlooking though somewhat my rear end, dude's outright.
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Jun 18, 2015 03:15
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I'd suck his cock, and core out his hairy rear end with my tongue. Hell, I'd give him a scented oil massage.
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Jun 18, 2015 03:18
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 this probably includes dumb phones but lol has Nokia ever fallen
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qirex posted:in like 2010 someone who used to work at nokia wrote a big long blogpost at how busted their software development was, they had a full team of product, design and devs for each handset and no mandate to align them at all [and this is when they had 30+ models going at a time] i remember this post THC posted:nokia'd it was 'elop' based
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does anyone have that thing where the board changed elops contract to give him a big bonus if nokia was bought out for a premium above the open share price? and then he tanked the share price so that microsoft could swoop in. and he got his sick bonus, and it was somehow a big surprise to everybody???
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