Nokia’s New CEO: Challenges
Jean-Louis Gassée on the challenges for Nokia’s new CEO Stephen Elop:
Today, Nokia pushes devices that use older Symbian S60 stacks, newer Symbian^3 and Symbian^4 engines, as well as a mobile Linux derivative: Meego. Imagine the chuckles in the halls of Cupertino, Mountain View, and Palo Alto. Even with plenty of money and management/engineering talent, updating one software platform is a struggle. Ask Apple, Google, or HP, and the chuckles quickly become groans. Nokia thinks it can stay on the field when it’s playing the game in such a disorganized fashion?
Nokia’s New CEO: Challenges | Monday Note
The slow death of Dopplr
Once the darlings of the UK startup scene, Dopplr has dwindled inexorably ever since it was bought by Nokia a year ago
The Guardian reports on what happened to Dopplr after their exit. It’s really quite remarkable how they’ve drifted into complete obscurity. Someone should start a series of “whatever happened to…” articles for Web 2.0 start-ups after their acquisition.
