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Nokia CEO voices regret surrounding recent company decisions
Jun 29th, 2012
RIM isn't the only former smartphone giant that's hurting, as Finnish smartphone manufacturer Nokia has been getting hammered lately as well. And according to Asymco's Horace Dediu, it seems that Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has a few regrets about some of his company's recent decisions. Dediu provdies a translation of Elop's interview on Thursday with a Finnish newspaper where executive says he'd change several decisions that Nokia has made if he had the chance. 'The past year and a half have had situations where we might [have done] some things differently if we had known [things were] changing so rapidly, even faster than anyone could have predicted,' Elop said according to Dediu. 'One example of this is the Android phones (Source: BGR News) -
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