Nokia's technology chief 'quits over strategy'
A customer tests a Nokia mobile phone at Nokia's Flagship store in Helsinki last September. Nokia's head of technology has taken a leave of absence and is not coming back over disagreement over a new group strategy, Finland's leading daily Helsingin Sanomat reported.
Nokia's head of technology has taken a leave of absence and is not coming back over disagreement over a new group strategy, Finland's leading daily Helsingin Sanomat reported on Thursday.
"Two independent sources for the Helsingin Sanomat say Rich Green will be gone until the end of the year and is unlikely to return to Nokia," the paper reported.
Nokia, the leading world maker of mobile phones, confirmed to AFP that Green "had taken leave to attend to a personal matter," but did not provide further details or a date for his return.
The newspaper's unnamed sources said Green disagreed with a decision by Nokia to scrap plans for its Meego operating system, an open-source platform co-operation with Intel which was eventually supposed to replace the Symbian platform in Nokia smartphones.
In February, chief executive Stephen Elop announced a radical restructuring of the company, which included phasing out Symbian in favour of Microsoft Phone for its smartphones, and essentially relegating Meego to an engineering side project.
Green took over as chief technology officer as part of Elop's corporate shake-up, replacing Alberto Torres in February.
Elop's gamble on the Microsoft platform was a dramatic move to stop the haemorrhaging of its market share at the hands of Apple and phones running Google's Android operating system.
(c) 2011 AFP
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Nokia should further develop Symbian to compete with iOS, Android and Windows 7. Essentially Microsoft is buying out Nokia.
People will return to Nokia if they can offer a comparable OS to the current leaders.
Giving up of their identity is the end of Nokia.
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It`s a shame: Qt (and the upcoming QML) are great technologies. Dumping the for Microsoft Phone was the dumbest move Nokia could make (although Microsoft paid them a cool billion to do it).
But hey - what's a billion if you can kick one of your few competitors ou of the market forever? Corporate politics...the lowest of the low.