Former Nokia Exec: Windows Phone Strategy Doomed

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Slashdot readers will recall that back in January, Nokia CEO Steven Elop blamed the company's Windows Phone woes on commission-minded salespeople (http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/01/30/2158227/nokia-ceo-blames-salesmen-for-windows-phone-struggles), who pushed phones they thought would actually sell. Now, ex-Nokia exec Tomi Ahonen, is calling the Nokia's Windows Phone strategy 'a certain road to death (http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2012/03/brutal-truth-about-lumia-cannot-sustain-even-1-to-1-replacement-of-symbian-windows-phone-strategy-do.html).' He bases this grim assessment on UK market shares from Kantar Worldpanel: 'When Nokia shifted from "the obsolete" Symbian to "the awesome" Windows Phone, Nokia lost a third of its customers (http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/260644/nokia-microsoft-certain-road-death)! In just one quarter!' Can MeeGo or Tizen save Nokia now?

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/03/21/1549228/former-nokia-exec-windows-phone-strategy-doomed