Guest post by On a recent recent visit to Beijing, Anna Shipley of Nokia Conversations – China, caught up with Stephen Elop for a short interview. In the interview, Elop illiterates once again the importance of the partnership with Microsoft, their new strategy, roll out, renewal and challenges faced ahead – in his own words “Nokia has to move forward faster and more aggressively now, than we have ever done before because of the competition”. He talks about the importance of creating a great environment for developers of applications so that they can be effective, especially with the new Windows platform on Nokia devices. He also mentions that investment in Symbian will continue with support and updates way into 2016, with new apps, customer service and all of the elements that Symbian customers are currently experiencing.
You have to be one dumb fuck to believe this. How many Symbian people did they lay off again? Give me a break.
To be fair, Nokia outsourced many of their Symbian developers to a third party. Maintenance is also less labour intensive than active development.
Notice that the comment says illiterates. NOT reiterates. Says something about the mindset of M$ people.