Originally Posted by Helmuth

Okay, many new possibilities...

Positive and negative:

• Will he realize the chances of N900 like devices?

• Will he integrate symbian emulation at meego and discontinue Symbian as a operating system?

• Will he support his old employer and give us Windows instead of Meego in the future?

• Or will he annoy his former employer and Microsoft will begin a war against Nokia? (Will Steve Ballmer Buy RIM Now Just To Destroy Nokia?)

Originally Posted by gerbick

This dude could be ****ing Superman and it wouldn't satisfy anybody simply because he's not Finnish.

Originally Posted by gerbick

Having a North American based executive could assist in the abysmal (read: total lack of) advertising in the North American markets - the very same places that double digit share has been lost.

Originally Posted by gerbick

Regardless, the whole xenophobia that's going on in this thread reeks of ignorance and intolerance.

Originally Posted by Rauha

Actually the response in Finland has been very positive. Two large newspaper reader surveys show 70%+ and 80%+ approval ratings for Nokia's decision.

He allready confrimed relocating his base to Helsinki/Espoo.

The poeple in this thread saying he should be finnish appear to be non-finns, so I don't that it qualifies as xenophobia.

Originally Posted by Jack6428

Does he care about the N900? If not, he can be CEO of green monkeys in Atlantis for all I care...

Originally Posted by cmsjkung

Can anyone send email to new CEO to visit this web site, so he will know what bad service is being provided by Nokia so far for N900 users....

Originally Posted by drm

For me these are very bad news.
Bad for meego open source because this guy is all for proprietary software.
Bad for symbian for the same reasons
Bad for any final hope of an alternative for this thought that all software has to came from states.

One of the biggest problems of nokia is a war lead by all American carriers, bloggers, news agencies, journalists to any idea of something that it’s not made in Silicon Valley. The inclusion of this potato head has a top general of nokia can’t be read has anything but a final capitulation.

Originally Posted by twigleaf1976

Read here.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07...nifesto_risku/

And then think is having ANOTHER American a good idea. Industry experts would argue not perhaps. Given MS can't organise mobile communication devices and their policy and internal politics can't bring anything of worth to market, not sure Nokia are going in the right direction.

I pity the firm and I my signature even more than ever, stands.

Originally Posted by Peet

Calm down already ossipena.

People (probably) more experienced than you have up to three decades' worth of history with Microsoft's corporate mono culture and also their executives' post-MS tradition of "corporate networking".

Do you reckon people who join Microsoft are either unaware or unsupportive of Microsoft's key corporate objectives of owning (proprietary) "standards" (data formats, protocols etc.) and wiping the floor with all competition, especially of the dangerous open-source kind.

There's little if anything in this guy's CV to suggest that he actually gets Linux and Open Source or open and standards-based collaboration (which also includes Qt, a key technology for Nokia, at least currently) or Nokia's old strength: hardware!

Equally little about him screams charisma (whether we like it or not, a desirable trait in today's world of CEOs).

Does he have experience or connections to fix the issue of lack of early or volume access to some of the latest hardware technologies that are being developed and manufactured in the far east (at key competitors' doorstep, or increasingly by them)?

The "linux idiots" you malign here en masse tend to compute plusses and minuses and whatever their experience tells and end up with rather understandable suspicion, yet tempered by the willing to give this guy a chance to prove himself.

If you've really got unbearable issues with that I can't help you.