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Do you know what authority he has, or doesn't have?

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You assumed - reminds me of the Simpsons gag... :)

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I don't but there are strong pieces of evidence floating around.

but you can keep this thread, this is getting more annoying second by second.

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and your racism throughout your post against finnish people is also illegal in most european countries.
apparantly you claim that a finnish pioneering company in the mobile phone business cant produce anything good as long as its still run by finns. you also claim that among the 5 million people living in finland theres not one single person suitable to take command of Nokia, and you inciniate that finnish people cant design neither, although they may speak both finnish and english fluently, unlike a foreigner who also have far less experience with nokia.

your rant just looks like racism ideas with stupidity brought from the stoneage - so stop playing modern age and start playing with your stonetoys instead :)

EDIT: oh, ok... you were just kidding around... for a moment i thought you were serious with those posts :)

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On this one I agree. And it needs to be integrated design, not hardware, software and services seen as separate entities.

The new N8 style language is quite good, though I sort of miss the inspired art deco line of six years ago...

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actuallly i also agree that things have been moving slowly the latest years.
i still remember fondly when nokia introduced exchangable cover plates with different designs about 10 years ago. its a pity that idea didnt live on... sure iphone owners can do it as well today but its sad we cant do it anymore with our nokias.

nokia was also first with letting the user install custom ringtones and some other multimedia features

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What mantra is that? Can you repeat it for me? :)

Oh God. I can just imagine that conversation:
Dan: "Hey, Mike! Say, I wanted to ask you about Finnish designs and architecture!"
Mike: "Yeah?"
Dan: "So, what can you tell me about it?"
Mike: "Nothing."
Dan: "Okay, thanks for answering!" :)

I mean, really, unless you live or have a particular interest in Finland, you're probably unlikely to hear much about it when it's placed beside other worldly designs from Asians to American to other European designs. At least, from my American-centric point of view, I've seen far more Asian designs successfully winning sales and awards than anything from Finland. It's mean but it's funny to imagine that conversation, but I suspect that it's because it's just true. :) Feel free to educate me on that.

Aren't Finland and Scandanavia just part of Europe anyway? You know, like that American guy that Nokia just hired on as the new CEO. :p

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Racism? Ha! Questioning the design credentials of a nation is hardly racism (and I might add, some less emotional members of the forum confirmed my opinion to be incorrect as there are some very good Finnish designers out there, they're just not working in senior management design roles for Nokia, instead non-design oriented Finns are!)

That's pretty much the opinion of many financial market and mobile sector analysts too, and also that of the executive board which is why they replaced a Finn with a non-Finn for the first time in the companies history.

Nokia needs fresh blood - it's not to say that Finns can't manage per se, just that Nokia needs a new non-Finnish perspective at the top.

Nokia is a global organisation - the brightest and the best should be hired wherever they hail from. Having a preference to hire from the local Finnish population will lead to reduced quality of staff and ultimately leadership - if the local Finns are the best people for the job then sure, hire them, but if not hire from elsewhere.

To some extent, yes - but once the Finns and Swedes began to bite so early it was too easy to keep it going... :)

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Helsinki is a well-known architectural/design mecca along with Barcelona, Milan, et al.

The buildings there, new and old, are stunning.

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You are amazing! Let´s just say that try it on some architect! Ask him&her.

TIP
Most of architect students FIRST study history and what kind of different influences & styles have been. THEN they start to make their own stuff. At least here in Finland and AFAIK in many European countries. You seems to completely ignore past and history. It doesn´t matter what is happening right now when we are speaking about design in general. And past design affects to design of what is beign done currently. Sometimes there happens to be some trend setters (At least one big name from Finland). I´m sorry but how much you generally give yourself time to think stuff? Try to extend that time.