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Nux on April 25, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Today was the last day of Nokia as we knew it

I'd love a comeback in the mobile space in 2018! :-)

nabla9 on April 25, 2014 [–]

Remember the Burning Platform letter from Elop that killed remaining Symbian sales for Nokia? Elop likened Nokia/Symbian to burning oil platform and argued that Nokia must jump from the platform to be saved.

Jolla http://jolla.com/ was founded soon afterwards by people who left Nokia. The name Jolla means dinghy, skiff or lifeboat in Finnish.

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