Am I the only one worried about Nokia's future ?
With the cancelation of Nokia X, Asha, and S40 phones
Along with the old Symbian Belle ones
Nokia is now Windows Phone, which was cool with me until all the revenge news of layoffs and cancelations (mixradio sellout, Lumia 1020 end life, McLaren canceled)
I've been a hardcore loyal fan for years now, but this is starting to make me question the future...
I don't see why people get scared if they would only spend a few minutes to look at the situation rationally instead of reading click-bait headlines from sites like The Verge or something.
Nokia X was always a bad idea for Microsoft - only used as that silver bullet for Nokia to essentially blackmail MS into buying them. Canning it after the acquisition is the best thing to happen to both Nokia and MS, it's a project that is no longer needed so stop spending resources on it and dilute the attention of the teams.
Asha and S40 has no future, even if they move a lot of units (but with little to no margins) right now. The fact that they have little profit does not justify keeping 10k employees to support it and dilute resources and attention. Again, another completely sane and rational decision.
Mixradio sellout - spinning it off as a separate company is not necessarily a bad move. Content licensing is a tough business and in a lot of cases the demands for it directly conflicts with technology development (eg DRM, content people want it implemented, technology people don't want to work on it). As a separate company it would allow Mixradio to be more nimble and negotiate on terms which is more suitable to the content business without answering to a technology focused company that may not understand the nuisances of content business. Again, seems like a good move to me.
1020 EOL - it doesn't sell well despite the buzz and reputation it has, so they EOL it by not making any more stock least it sits in warehouses as unwanted stock. You don't order things you don't need, not a hard concept to understand. Again, absolutely rational decision.
McLaren - they showed it off to devs and found no one interested in the 3D touch stuff so they canned the project. Again, absolutely rational. Flip side of the coin - look at the Amazon 3D phone interface thing, nobody cares and it is not a killer feature, let it go and focus on the next thing.
All these decision are very sound, actually makes me appreciate that they don't have their head stuck in the sand instead.