On: Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phon...

[colmvp]

In 2006, if you were to make the prediction that Nokia, a company generating 41B in global sales, would be gone in a decade, you'd be downvoted to oblivion.

[rhblake → colmvp]

Gone from the cell phone business, sure, but certainly not gone as a company. Big in telco equipment. After acquiring Alcatel-Lucent, I note that Nokia now has roughly the same amount of employees as Microsoft...

[pjmlp → rhblake]

And closed most of their European units moving them to cheaper countries....

That is what makes me angry at them, not whatever they did later with Microsoft.

[FLGMwt → colmvp]

Throwing this up here not because I believe it but because I want to be that guy that everyone harkens back to in the ludicrous chance it does happen:

Ditto Apple.

:P