Microsoft’s interest in Nokia was being able to compete with what is now a duopoly between Google and Apple in phones. They wanted to own a mobile platform. I am very confident that they did not want their project to flop. That being said, they’ll have had their own concerns and interests. Maybe Nokia would have done better to go down the Apple or Google path, but for Microsoft, the whole point was to get Microsoft-platform hardware out there.
They were already losing before MS bought them.
Elop came from MS and always seemed like he was there to sabotage Nokia
Microsoft’s interest in Nokia was being able to compete with what is now a duopoly between Google and Apple in phones. They wanted to own a mobile platform. I am very confident that they did not want their project to flop. That being said, they’ll have had their own concerns and interests. Maybe Nokia would have done better to go down the Apple or Google path, but for Microsoft, the whole point was to get Microsoft-platform hardware out there.
Microsoft wanted a platform… for Windows CE, not Nokia’s MeeGo or Symbian. That was the problem. Elop destroyed Nokia to get the only the name.
Maybe sabotage isn’t the right word, but his decisions seemed to be more for Microsoft’s benefit than for Nokia’s.