Nokia's problem was it was too successful.
Nokia were driving round Finland with a van full of equipment testing cell phones at the time.
Nokia was our initial partner in sending out these messages.
Nokia basically had at least a couple of assets on its balance sheet.
Nokia was about half the Finnish stock market.
Nokia and Microsoft had both done a lot of investments to try to overcome that.
And Nokia's were always not.
who turned around Nokia-- somebody asked him, what's your secret to success?
In the Nokia, they had it in the Java systems of Nextel.
Or even Nokia, where our farm is, is I think of Nokia leading that mobile technology.
the old Nokia phones, the 5110s, they thought that our thumbs were getting too long because of all the texting? Anyone
This is a Nokia 1100, and I bought this on eBay.
You might think of Nokia in that space, for example.
Do you have a sense of where Nokia went wrong?
One of the things about Nokia is when it kind of almost died, it released enormous talent, highly educated talent, on the market.
We built our first app for Nokia phones only, because that was the smartphone that existed.
when when the curve looked like this Nokia said well it took a little market share and now we're on this long slow
And I held onto a Nokia.
So did you start off with the first camera on a Nokia 3210 and move along?
Almost everybody now has usually not a smartphone but a little Nokia phone.
operating system adoption in China the green line is Nokia and you can see that in the middle even as late as the middle
of 2010 2third of the phones sold in China are still Nokia brick phones the
iPhone is not for sale yet in China Nokia was basically Bing the farm
Finland, you have Nokia in the '70s; Sweden had ABBA, and Volvo; and countries that actually are identified by their leading celebrated sub-brands and of
becoming content there's been a study by Nokia saying they expect about 35% of all of
So he said that he was the chairman of the board of Nokia.
Then it had a big shock, Nokia.
Let's double down and go into handsets and compete with Ericsson and Nokia-- completely moronic.
And if you want to know how that ends up just look at BlackBerry or Nokia or any of those firms where powerful people tried to defend their advantages far longer than they should
They're also quite mindful, I assume, of Nokia, a fellow Finnish company that did not fare as well.
What really drove this home to us-- a lot of people think that the chip that this became was for Nokia.
When I started working with this company, joint venture between Nokia and Siemens, and the Teleco hardware and software space, they had just approved a new marketing campaign
Just like we saw in the case of Iran was a technology sold to them by Nokia Siemens also
what's happening Firefox 20% of the browser market now Symbian which has been made Open Source by Nokia right and
effort. One example from from news, I have my Nokia N95 in my bag, and of course you know that I could broadcast
disconnected the mobile devices is is is filling that Gap and so and if you look at the Nokia devices you know they're they're going into very very um um poor
And so with a connected thermometer, what we've done, and this is one out of Withings that essentially-- or Nokia,
facility. And then when I finished my PhD, I started in Bell Labs, which is now Nokia Bell Labs, and I spent seven years there working on research, but then
Secondly, I mentioned this economics term, "sunkenness." A word about Nokia, great European success story, back in the day of course, that at one point
Growing up, in university, I just-- I became the best player of Snake for the Nokia phone,
I mean, when we first met, it was the exact same Nokia phone, but in different colors.
And now, what I'm beginning to see is, more and more companies like UniLever, like Nike, like Nokia, is another example of companies that are beginning to see how their businesses