LKY predicted that Nokia...

[fox1]

Satki!

Male reporter: Finland has produced Nokia, and Sweden IKEA… These are companies that seem to punch way above what the country’s physical size seems to suggest?

LKY: Alright, Sweden IKEA. . . Do we want to go into [retail and furniture]–have we got the wood and designers? The Swedes are good designers. Nokia was one of these flukes in history, from a communist–a controlled–society, overshadowed by the Soviet Union that they broke through.

But, they are about what? 7-8 million? Can they keep up with the competition from Korea? From Japan? Watch it in the long-term.

How many bright fellows have you got? With inventive and creative minds?

Female reporter: You are making us all very depressed [said semi-jokingly].

LKY: No. I am not depressed–I am realistic. I say: these are our capabilities, this is the competition we face, and given what we have–our assets and capabilities–we can still make a good living, provided that we are realistic.

 

[[[ForeverAlone]]]

if you don't know Nokia want to make a come back wor.....happen to see some news stated they are coming out smart phone.

 

[shinkuaku]

Grandmaster thinks of moves 16 steps ahead. Nowadays where to find? Extinct liao loh.

 

[gravity_infinity]

nokia is do in by microsoft.

windows mobile killed it

 

[fox1]

if you don't know Nokia want to make a come back wor.....happen to see some news stated they are coming out smart phone.

Doesn't change the fact that they have kaput.

 

[Adenovirus]

The old man was satki indeed. But he has already died, so please move on

 

[civicguy]

The old man was satki indeed. But he has already died, so please move on

Most importantly, his ah dou (and merry men) are no where near him.. not even by a ku ku hair

 

[gravity_infinity]

nokia failing to embrace android sealed its death.

same for blackberry.

can i say i foretold berry demise... and i am satki?

it is common sense.

 

[fox1]

nokia is do in by microsoft.

windows mobile killed it

You choose to walk along a dimly lit path and got robbed, you cannot blame the dimly lit path.

Hard truth.

 

[Angmoh_TuaKi]

Consumerism is becoming dead. U innovate also useless.

 

[BioProEng]

Grandmaster thinks of moves 16 steps ahead. Nowadays where to find? Extinct liao loh.

now is all hindsight no foresight?

 

[ahkrong]

Doesn't change the fact that they have kaput.

time to move on.

 

[john hanley]

Father was an awesome man...a colossus....son?

 

[shinkuaku]

now is all hindsight no foresight?

Have loh, but not that far ahead.

 

[dark_aLLeY]

Nokia is making a mobile comeback: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/10/us-nokia-mobile-consumer-idUSKCN0QF0FK20150810

 

[Jarlaxle]

how come he nvr say ikea dies HAR?

 

[dark_aLLeY]

How come he never talk about Creative?



too paiseh?

 

[mynickname]

When was the interview conducted?

 

[Orionz]

jin satkiss

 

[sggirlsareflatchested]

on hindsight, nokia's current plight can be avoided if they had embraced multiple operating systems (e.g. android like other OEMs samsung / HTC which had devices running both OSes) and not limit themselves to only windows mobile which had a small market penetration.

well of course with a M$ trojan horse CEO their fate is sealed anyway.

the thing about competition from korea (chaebols) was spot on though.