It's disputable whether Nokia was a master in logistics, in fashion/design or in RF-technology or all of them.
However, it's undisputed that they did not master software. Management had no idea about software development, the tooling was awkward. Well, and for OSes, Symbian was from another decade, Linux too little, introduced too slowly because management believed in Symbian being the cash cow.
It worked as long as phones were manufactured in their own factories with high margins. Once manufacturing was outsourced to low cost countries and software became more important, they were lost.
Disclaimer: I was a software developer there for 10 years, but understood to leave well before the bitter end.
It's disputable whether Nokia was a master in logistics, in fashion/design or in RF-technology or all of them.
However, it's undisputed that they did not master software. Management had no idea about software development, the tooling was awkward. Well, and for OSes, Symbian was from another decade, Linux too little, introduced too slowly because management believed in Symbian being the cash cow.
It worked as long as phones were manufactured in their own factories with high margins. Once manufacturing was outsourced to low cost countries and software became more important, they were lost.
Disclaimer: I was a software developer there for 10 years, but understood to leave well before the bitter end.