"The company’s U.S. headquarters in Sunnyvale, says Kerris, now has a very startup-like feel. Even if things don’t work out for Nokia in the long run, he said, “at least we’ll have fun and go down trying.”
Too bad his tenure at webOS was not fun for anyone involved, all the way down to app developers. His failure there is only "forgotten" because Leo's failure with HP and webOS was orders of magnitude greater.
And Leo's failures will also be forgotten. That's the point. The new cycle is so short and consumer memory so limited that it's pretty hard to have a meaningful failure that the press won't let go of.
Go read Nokia's history. They used to manufacture paper, then rubber products, tires, and footware. They've reinvented themselves and transformed the company a few times. That stuff has also been "forgotten"
"The company’s U.S. headquarters in Sunnyvale, says Kerris, now has a very startup-like feel. Even if things don’t work out for Nokia in the long run, he said, “at least we’ll have fun and go down trying.”