Laptop Magazine, the #2 selling English-language tech magazine in the Helsinki airport, wrote a bit on the future of Nokia. While Nokia is selling well all over the world, their track record of years of extensive innovation coupled with one or two fantastic failures makes us cellphone geeks worry. We like Finland, we really do, and we don’t want to see their fjords darkened by the possibility of problems in their biggest exports: fermented fish and cellphones.
Nokia was surprisingly and wonderfully candid in the interview:
“Its clear that we’re not performing in the U.S. market in the way we expect to be, and more importantly, we re not performing in a way that’s consistent with where we are in other large markets around the world,” said Tim Eckersley, senior VP of customer market operations and head of the Americas market for mobile device business at Nokia.
Good luck, Nokia, and as they say in Finland: Oho! Tota noin… Eih n se vaa ollu’ sun ajokoira?
Can Nokia Right the Ship? [Laptop]
