It is now official that Nokia/Elop won’t offer the N9 in the UK either (along with the US – Update! nor in Germany). Among other things, the statement says:
“…Although we are delighted with the very positive reception [my emphasis] that the Nokia N9 has received, here in the UK there are no plans to offer the Nokia N9 at present.”
Given that Nokia is hemorrhaging money through their jugular vein right now, you would expect them (heck, any company!) to be desperate to sell a device that has had a “very positive reception”, even more so given that Nokia don’t have any other new high-end product right now and their WP7 phones don’t even have a launch date yet. And since, according to Stephen Elop, WP7 is superior to MeeGo/Harmattan, there is no chance of the N9 cannibalizing Nokia’s upcoming WP7. Right? Because that has been Elop’s message and argument all this time. Right? That WP7 is what consumers want, not the N9, hence Nokia’s decision to fully go with WP7. Right? Thus, the people who buy the N9 will eagerly jump to Nokia’s WP7 phones once they are out. Right? Because those devices will be superior to the N9 and will be what consumers really want, what with their “ecosystem” and everything. Right? So Nokia could make twice the profit by first selling people the N9 and then any WP7 phone, that people will be dying to get their hands on. Right? Because that should be the logic if Elop’s all-out WP7 bet is so right and sound. Right? Because if Nokia really wanted to release the N9 in every country then they would be allowed to do so because Nokia, under Elop, is not Microsoft’s biotch now. Right?
Yeah, right.
Given everything that Stephen Elop has done and said regarding the N9 since it was announced, I think it is now safe to make the name ‘Elop’ a synonym with the word ‘stupid’.
Thus, you could say:
“That’s just plain Elop!”
Or:
“What are you, Elop!?”
I wrote a post a few weeks back that could then be titled:
“It is not about Qt, it’s the OS, Elop!”
You could also use different forms of the name to mimic a noun. So Einstein’s famous quote would be:
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human Elopness, and I’m not sure about the former.”
Of course, any word with a negative connotation (such as ‘stupid’) can also be used as an insult:
“You’re an Elop!”
‘Elop’ is obviously also equivalent to any of the synonyms of ‘stupid’, such as ‘dumb, ‘imbecile’, ‘ignoramus’, ‘dense’, ‘idiot’, ‘dimwit’….
So what other examples of ‘stupid’, sorry ‘Elop’, can you come up with??
I’ve given up on Nokia. They were one of my favorite companies that I loyally supported. Now I hope WP7 fails massively, and the company is split up and sold. It will be better than this abomination they’ve become.
I know what you mean.
It’s sad to see the Nokia’s slogan seemingly going from “Connecting people” to “Shoving WP down your throat”.
I am sure that when Stephen Elop leaves, whenever that happens, that only then will we know exactly what went on behind the scenes and his absolute stubbornness to refuse selling a device that people are yelling for; of course we can make educated guesses already, but one day we’ll know for sure…
Well if that happens, Nokia will be another classic example of stupid company with trojan CEO… I bet economics, marketing and management etc. textbooks would be full of Nokia stories, their rise and fall, or something like that, and how to avoid your company having the same fate as Nokia, and Stupid will be dubbed as either the worst or best CEO of the decade, depending on which angle you look at it . . . The only way to stop this is to support the N9, force stupid to change his mind, if not just fire him…
I think that his WP decision will turn out to be either a huge success for Nokia or a huge failure.
I don’t see anything in between. However, that really doesn’t change much regarding the N9/MeeGo: since he refuses to give the N9 a fair chance in the market, and let the consumers – not Elop – decide which they like better, we might never know how well, or bad, it would do compared to WP.
Regarding the N9: I am having second thoughts about buying it, as that money will only help Elop finance WP7, and I don’t want to be part of that in any way; I’m still trying to make up my mind….
The N9 must fail, otherwise it will make the board and Elop look like they don’t know what they’re doing. Sadly, Elop and the board are in the best position to assure it fails by manipulating inventories.
I think “Elop” fits right in with “herp” and “derp”.
>>”My team is playing like derpville.”
>”Can you get herp in derpville?”
>>”No, it’s full of elops.”
I agree; as I wrote in another post myself:
Elop is cutting off the heads of all the other siblings in Nokia that could potentially outgrow WP7 so that he can say “Look, WP7 is the tallest!”
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No, I think Elop’s doing a ‘Sendo’.
Look it up.
Yeah, I know about Sendo.
Given the size of Nokia, and Elop’s background at MS, I don’t see how they think they could pull something like that off, even though Elop’s words + actions all support it; you have to wonder why Nokia’s shareholders are willing to put up with his devestating actions….