News - Nokia in hot water with miffed shareholders

[HEXUS]

And a union isn't impressed with Microsoft move either.

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[OilSheikh]

The fools should have gone with Android.

[TheAnimus]

bwhahahahaha

Antti Rinne, chairman of trade union Pro, reportedly said: "It would be reasonable that those who lose their jobs would receive a lump sum of €100,000 in addition to their severance payment to help finance their reeducation

I've heard of highballing in offers, but 100k... hahahahahahahahahahahahha *breaths* hahahahahahhahahaha.

In all honesty if Nokia had actually spent money on the education of the people who designed Symbian, it might not have been such a pile of poo to code for.

Tbh I think nokia could do with loosing a quater of their workforce, so the union might well just be playing into their hands, go on strike brothers.

100k... Its still cracking me up now.

[cairnscj]

This was always going to a tough decision for Nokia, but the Mee-Go platform isn't ready yet and Symbian 3 hasn't taken off as a format within the Smartphone sector. This has left Nokia loosing market share and no doubt they could soldiered on, but there is definitely a distinct gap and it would be better to be earning some revenues rather than none. This isn't that drastic a change if you look at the company's history, the shift from paper to phones.

Common Sense would problem suggest that to a certain extent both Microsoft and Nokia need each other at the moment, no doubt they will probably look to design each other out at some point in the future.

The other option to save jobs might to reduce the hours everyone works and keep an off-season team, until everything begins to pick up again depends on how happy everyone would be to job share in the meantime.

Would android have forced everyone into direct competition on costs?

[McClane]

In all honesty if Nokia had actually spent money on the education of the people who designed Symbian, it might not have been such a pile of poo to code for.

I really hate this attitude. There's nothing wrong with the underlying OS, it's the UI that's the biggest problem.

[dangel]

I really hate this attitude. There's nothing wrong with the underlying OS, it's the UI that's the biggest problem.

To the end user that IS the OS..

[TheAnimus]

I really hate this attitude. There's nothing wrong with the underlying OS, it's the UI that's the biggest problem.

No there is a hell of a lot wrong with the underlying OS.

I remember looking at the symbian 60 series book and just thinking "wow".