News - Nokia to shed 7,000 jobs, outsource Symbian to Accenture

[HEXUS]

4,000 people will get the chop by the end of next year, while 3,000 will join Accenture.

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[3dcandy]

Bet Nokia are chuffed that WP7 already seems to be losing ground rapidly to ios and android. Jump from one sinking ship to another eh?

[aidanjt]

More like jumping from a sinking ship, onto the titanic.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Nokia is a major employer in Finland so it is not very good news.

[TheAnimus]

Bet Nokia are chuffed that WP7 already seems to be losing ground rapidly to ios and android. Jump from one sinking ship to another eh?

Sorry but that is fan boy nonsense.

It can't be loosing ground, it has none to loose!

The thing for WP7 will be price point and Ux. Its not going to go after the high end market just yet, they are still going to be using snapdragon in a years time, this means Nokia should be able to make a handset in high enough volume for £100 that isn't a pile of junk, which has a better UI than the iPhone and better overall experience if your not doing anything considered out of the ordinary than the Android.

iOS is really going to be numbered if Apple don't come out with an iPhone 5 that people really want (my guess is they will build the aerial out of some form of chewing gum, which all dogs will instinctively love to chew, whilst heralding this new design mistake as changing everything. Again.)

[3dcandy]

figures I've seen somewhere are in USA and it has already lost market share. Digging deeper into the figures I'd guess it's actually not selling well at all but with the increase in smartphone sales it has just sold badly from the start. I'm sure Nokia will increase WP7 sales, but as you said there are none to speak of as yet so any increase will look good. Symbian is taking a huge hit aswell, my point is that Nokia seem to have taken a safe approach (again) which already looks like the wrong approach (again) and there is only so many monumental mistakes a company can make before it goes tits up! Apple, well they look increasingly screwed over time as people move away from their latest shiny toys because they don't actually make enough shiny toys to keep everyone happy (in regards to price points/performance and different markets). I know their performance generally has been pretty good for years, but as the iPod is in rapid decline because of iPhone, and Macbook in decline because of iPad if they don't bring out another defining product it could hurt them. I'm not a fan of Apple, I don't think I ever will be, but I can see their appeal. Nokia however is the Titanic, slow to avoid an obstacle, and one it believes will do it no harm anyway when it hits it.