+1 totally agree. In watching the interview he didn't really blame apple. I think he says "one might say that iPhone killed Nokia and iPad killed paper"
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Finnish Prime Minister Again 'Blames' Apple for Country's Economic Struggles
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+1 totally agree. In watching the interview he didn't really blame apple. I think he says "one might say that iPhone killed Nokia and iPad killed paper"
I'm afraid that tablets have done NOTHING what so ever to stop that! Around 36 football fields worth of forests are gone every minute, it's estimated around 15% of the entire planet's greenhouse gas emissions are from deforestation because all those trees soak the carbon up...
So it's good Finland's paper industry has shrunk, but I doubt the rainforests being cut up will ever stop.
Sorry, went all eco on you there
I agree that the paper industry is not the reason for the devastating deforestation of old growth and rainforests. In fact, there has been an argument before that paper recycling is actually bad for old growth forests, because most paper-based forest is produced from purpose grown trees, and a reduction of usage takes away the economics for planting those trees.
But, there is a lot of environmental damage caused by paper usage that is not just directly related to deforestation.
Meh, it's just a soundbite from a media-friendly politician.
It's not Finland's fault that global investors came to the conclusion that Nokia was worth close to a ridiculous USD 250,000,000,000 at the turn of the century, and I'm sure that the government was fully aware that it was an unsustainable performance.
I bet they appreciated the tax revenues while they lasted, and that the Finnish people are enjoying a better infrastructure than they would otherwise have had (and will continue to do so for many decades to come).
It's not Finland's fault that global investors came to the conclusion that Nokia was worth close to a ridiculous USD 250,000,000,000 at the turn of the century, and I'm sure that the government was fully aware that it was an unsustainable performance.
I bet they appreciated the tax revenues while they lasted, and that the Finnish people are enjoying a better infrastructure than they would otherwise have had (and will continue to do so for many decades to come).
Wow
Darn capitalism! Evil, evil Apple, how dare you ruin Finland... Really dude?
Finland better man up and start taking responsibility for their own issues and stop blaming others.
Darn capitalism! Evil, evil Apple, how dare you ruin Finland... Really dude?
Finland better man up and start taking responsibility for their own issues and stop blaming others.
Perhaps if Nokia wasn't producing windows phones then maybe their marketshare would increase. Although didn't Microsoft purchase them? #fail
Apple should just buy Finland to make safari snappier but Steve would never allowed this.
Doomed!
(is that all of them?)
You forgot Finlandgate
Politicians love to blame everyone except themselvesbut this really takes the cake! PAPER? The writing on the wall for paper has been there for quite some time. If he is so dense that he can't see that then I think Finland is in much bigger trouble than they might realize.
Darn capitalism! Evil, evil Apple, how dare you ruin Finland... Really dude?
Finland better man up and start taking responsibility for their own issues and stop blaming others.
hahaha
my god
Darn capitalism! Evil, evil Apple, how dare you ruin Finland... Really dude?
Finland better man up and start taking responsibility for their own issues and stop blaming others.
Blame MR for exaggerating it. Finland never blamed Apple, they're just facing reality.
Well I can fit that in for you...
1. Since mobile socialing has increased multifild since the iPhone and iPad couples spend the time reserved for couple things on the phone... Hence Apple has contributed...
2. Earlier phones used to not need to be recharged more than once in 3 days... Since the iPhone phknes need to be recharged everyday... Hence more consumption of electricity... Producing which adds to global warming... Hence Apple is responsible for that too...
There I fit t for ya...
Hey! They got Rovio to protect those eggs from evil capitalist pigs!!
He should be happy they have that.
You're laughing at the wrong people, laugh at the clickbait title of the article.
Nokia didn't put their head in the sand. Nokia responded immediately, but it basically couldn't compete. It didn't have the right knowledgebase to make anything like the iPhone.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13...stroyed-nokias-world-leading-symbian-platform
One of the problems with tech journalism is that writers vastly underestimate the difficulty of execution; of actually producing something. So you get a lot of focus on *ideas*, but little analysis of the much greater difficulty of translating these ideas into products.
As the linked article showed, Nokia knew immediately that they were in trouble. They weren't in denial; they didn't have their heads in the sand. They just couldn't do anything about the problem because they didn't have the right skillset.
Google, who had been working on a mobile phone OS, did - but it took them a couple of years to get Android up and running...and they had the luxury of not losing market share hand over fist because they weren't in the market yet, as well as the advantage that they didn't have to produce handsets themselves.
MS was eventually able to get around to making a new phone as well.
But it is important to realize that the game is really about execution. Buggy whip makers didn't go out of business because they didn't realize that the automobile wasn't important, or because they stuck their heads in the sand. They went out of business because despite knowing that the automobile was the wave of the future, they couldn't do anything about it. Having a workforce skilled in running a wood lathe, varnishing, and tanning and weaving leather doesn't make you qualified to make engines on an assembly line. Even if you are vaguely in the transportation business.
Haven't read all the comments, but this sentiment is worth repeating:
IF Nokia had started producing smart devices to run both Windows Mobile ANNNND Android back when their Symbian OS started waning in popularity, they would still be right up there with the big boys in Apple, HTC, Samesung, and Motorola. Nokia like BlackBerry, sat on their hands too long allowing the competition to steamroll them into oblivion. This is fact.
IF Nokia had started producing smart devices to run both Windows Mobile ANNNND Android back when their Symbian OS started waning in popularity, they would still be right up there with the big boys in Apple, HTC, Samesung, and Motorola. Nokia like BlackBerry, sat on their hands too long allowing the competition to steamroll them into oblivion. This is fact.
I mean no offense, and there are some realities in your comment, but it's mostly excuse-making.
Nokia was once the world's most powerful smartphone maker for a long time with the biggest R&D budget. They, like Blackberry, felt they had the market cornered and that Google and Apple couldn't seriously threaten their business. Well they guessed wrong. When Nokia's sales figures started declining, they kept releasing outdated Symbian OS devices. Eventually Nokia responded and tried to rush to market their own competing touch screen device. But it was too late and the device underperformed. Then along came MS once Nokia was backed into a corner, and the rest is history.
There's a saying in business called "the quick and the dead". Nokia was too slow to react. But don't say they didn't have the resources to produce a valid touch screen smart device. They were stubborn and sat on their hands too long.
E-Mail and texting killed the paper industry...not the freaking iPhone.
What next, the Postmaster General is going to blame Apple for the USPS going bankrupt.....oh wait.....uh.
What next, the Postmaster General is going to blame Apple for the USPS going bankrupt.....oh wait.....uh.
Thanks! I read and watched the news reel, it definitely doesn't seem that the PM emphasizes Apple as the reason for their economic predicament. I believe he acknowledges the nations industry needs to be reworked to keep pace with the times. Interesting how MacRumors and TechCrunch (?) pushed it to indicate Apple was a clear and only target. However, it is clear that if paper was one of their two primary exports, it's time to rethink that approach.
Thanks again.