[Erratic6576]

I like to think that it was Microsoft which destroyed Nokia from the inside in order to make Windows phone great at last

https://slate.com/technology/2013/09/microsoft-nokia-deal-a-...

[squarefoot]

Well, the Linux based Maemo OS I had in 2005 0r 2006 on my Nokia 770 was already promising, although the hardware was quite slow and limited, but it was an open system one would have root access to out of the box. Then it evolved into Meego, which was even better and was then employed by the Nokia N9. Nokia already had the OS to transition to from the old Symbian, but after the Microsoft deal, they scrapped it to adopt Windows Mobile, and the rest is history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_770_Internet_Tablet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N9

[Zigurd]

Maemo and MeeGo and other Nokia OSs were more coherent than Microsoft's phone OSs at the time, and Symbian would have had a long life on cheap devices. Smartphones were expensive back then.

[mikko-apo]

Nokia's then CEO's Elop's "burning platform" memo leak in 2011 seemed to hurt Nokia a lot by painting their existing and upcoming phones as inferior.

> I have learned that we are standing on a burning platform.

https://www.engadget.com/2011-02-08-nokia-ceo-stephen-elop-r...

[justsomehnguy]

By the time of Elop's memo Nokia was already in the death spiral: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35030334

[kurkkumopo]

Karaportti 4 lyfe

[vdaea]

Which is what they were. It's 2024 and Android phones still don't hold a candle to Apple phones...

[jbverschoor]

Nokia was long gone when they were acquired.

They were beaten by RIM/BB

They tried gaming, didn’t succeed. Later on messaging, but didn’t have the platform (ping)

[secondcoming]

Blackberry come nowhere close to beating Nokia. It was Apple.

[rusticpenn]

Not outside USA

[panick21_]

Not really. It was the Nokia board that wanted to be taken over. They were looking for a mark, and Microsoft walked right into it. Nokia dropped the phone division on Microsoft and Microsoft then had to write it down.

[madeofpalk]

Nokia was dead long before Microsoft thought about buying them.