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  • Will Nokia survive as an independent company?

    Here's a graph of the past few years... and the drop today.

    I feel kind of sorry for all the people whose pension funds are in there.

    There are rumors that MSFT will buy them by the end of 2011... what do you think?



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    12
    Bankrupcy
    25.00%
    3
    Bought by Microsoft
    33.33%
    4
    Bought by someone else
    16.67%
    2
    Survival as independent company
    8.33%
    1
    Survival by inventing a technology for growing bananas in Finland
    16.67%
    2

  • #2
    they haven't been able to keep up with the competition. success is always temporary.

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    • #3
      Let it die. Their phones suck.
      Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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      • #4
        I have a Nokia N8

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        • #5
          I'm guessing that they will limp along for another year or two, then they will sell off their feature phone business to the Chinese and their smartphone business to MSFT.
          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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          • #6
            Bought by a Chinese firm eventually.
            "Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
            "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi

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            • #7
              Inst. own 9%
              yikes.

              That's an order of magnitude less institutional ownership than competitors like Motorola and RIMM
              "Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
              "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi

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              • #8
                Nokia's CEO came from Microsoft. Interesting. Looks like MSFT takeover it is.
                "Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
                "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi

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                • #9
                  The blogosphere call him "Microsoft's trojan horse".

                  It's amazing how inert Nokia is. I mean, they have yet to produce a competitor
                  for the iPhone, not to mention build a tablet.

                  Samsung managed to do both. They had an iPad competitor within a year, and
                  their Galaxy line of phones sells very well.

                  Meanwhile, Nokia is literally struggling with firmware updates for their flagship N8.
                  Sad.

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                  • #10
                    Yeah looks like MSFT is eying Nokia.
                    "Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
                    "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post
                      yikes.

                      That's an order of magnitude less institutional ownership than competitors like Motorola and RIMM
                      Which doesn't mean much, as RIM is on the same path.
                      "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                      Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                      • #12
                        And yeah, MS will buy Nokia.
                        "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                        Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                        • #13
                          Super Citizen kiss of death. The funniest thing I heard was a newscaster on the radio calling them a Swedish company.
                          “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

                          ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Asher View Post
                            Which doesn't mean much, as RIM is on the same path.
                            Yeah but it says a lot about what sort of confidence the big movers have in Nokia.
                            "Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
                            "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Oerdin View Post
                              Let it die. Their phones suck.
                              They will survive. They're Finnish.
                              Blah

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