Hey Stephen Elop, you might not consciously know what you have done, but thanks for killing Flash mobile and terminally wounding it's desktop sibling. First, after being CEO for only 3 months you sold Macromedia to Adobe in 2005. Then, just 5 months into your Nokia CEO-ship, with your leaked "burning platform" e-mail, you "Osborne effected" Symbian more than 9 months (more than 12 if you talk globally) before any new Nokia/Microsoft devices came out. Until this day I wonder why people aren't asking more questions about such a huge and basic mistake from a "top" CEO.
With Symbian stabbed in the back by it's own, it effectively killed the lucrative licensing deal Adobe had with Nokia that funded most of their mobile Flash development. You would know this, you brokered the deal back in the day! Adobe, not only being extremely slow to wake up to the iPhone, but also being a primarily money-driven company stopped their mobile Flash development the moment it was going to come 100% out of their own pockets. Thanks for being an instrumental part in destroying an awesome creative/technical collaboration platform + the livelihood of quite a few really nice people. Luckily we started switching away from Flash as a serious development platform for the past 2 years, lots of ex-Macromedia/Adobe people out there doing amazing stuff.
Concerning Nokia, the management team before you did bring Nokia to it's knees by trying to play it safe, but the damage you have done with your leaks and announcements to Nokia's stock price, platforms, sales and brand image must either be accounted to stupidity, stubbornness or an hidden agenda.
ps. Tomi Ahonen has been mentioning the "Elop effect", which is a combination of the Osborne and Ratner-effect. Here is Tomi's description of the Ratner effect:
"Gerald Ratner was CEO of British jewelry group Ratners (since renamed Signet Group). He made a famous speech in London to the Institute of Directors in 1991 in which he said his company products were sold for such low prices "because its total crap." This remark was then published and caused his company to collapse and was only saved by his departure - and the rebranding of the company to Signet. So the Ratner Effect is not related to 'generations' or 'platforms' - it is simply that if the CEO of a company calls his own products crap, he will be believed. That will instantly devalue all their products and cause collapse of prices, sales, profits."
With Symbian stabbed in the back by it's own, it effectively killed the lucrative licensing deal Adobe had with Nokia that funded most of their mobile Flash development. You would know this, you brokered the deal back in the day! Adobe, not only being extremely slow to wake up to the iPhone, but also being a primarily money-driven company stopped their mobile Flash development the moment it was going to come 100% out of their own pockets. Thanks for being an instrumental part in destroying an awesome creative/technical collaboration platform + the livelihood of quite a few really nice people. Luckily we started switching away from Flash as a serious development platform for the past 2 years, lots of ex-Macromedia/Adobe people out there doing amazing stuff.
Concerning Nokia, the management team before you did bring Nokia to it's knees by trying to play it safe, but the damage you have done with your leaks and announcements to Nokia's stock price, platforms, sales and brand image must either be accounted to stupidity, stubbornness or an hidden agenda.
ps. Tomi Ahonen has been mentioning the "Elop effect", which is a combination of the Osborne and Ratner-effect. Here is Tomi's description of the Ratner effect:
"Gerald Ratner was CEO of British jewelry group Ratners (since renamed Signet Group). He made a famous speech in London to the Institute of Directors in 1991 in which he said his company products were sold for such low prices "because its total crap." This remark was then published and caused his company to collapse and was only saved by his departure - and the rebranding of the company to Signet. So the Ratner Effect is not related to 'generations' or 'platforms' - it is simply that if the CEO of a company calls his own products crap, he will be believed. That will instantly devalue all their products and cause collapse of prices, sales, profits."