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[-] sramder@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

Love it. When they announced they were getting out of the handset market years ago I figured they were nuts. Now their equipment replaces china’s while they seemingly now manufacture licensed knockoffs of Nokia’s old handsets 🤯

Someone at Nokia is getting the Bond Villain of the Year award 🤔

[-] Vub@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago

Both Ericsson and Nokia have been huge players in the cellular networking market for many years, and still are. Nothing new. The only thing new is that they are getting even more contracts in the west since governments started boycotting Chinese companies (for good reason).

[-] sramder@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Sure… it was more that they chose to pull out around the start of the smart phone revolution. It seemed foolish at the time. I’m not actually implying they had a master-plan, just joking around a bit.

[-] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 22 points 1 year ago

The story of Nokia the company is long and meandering. Its roots go back to late 1860’s in the town of Nokia in Southern Finland, near the city of Tampere, from where they’ve gone through all sorts of businesses, including rubber boots and industrial capacitors to name just two. You might even find an old Nokia TV knocking about. The mobile handsets phase was in some sense but a blip in the story, although a spectacular one. I’m sure they’ll keep going in one way or another for a fair while still.

[-] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago
[-] sramder@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It does read a bit like something that should be on a bronze plaque somewhere.

[-] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

And they also made personal computers back in the 1980s.

[-] sramder@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I knew they made other consumer electronics but I had no idea about the boots. That’s a delightfully wholesome origin story :-)

Are they really struggling? I’m sure the margins are much better on carrier grade telecom equipment. I don’t think Huawei is going to mourn the loss, but this is probably a huge deal for Nokia.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Somewhat amusingly, they still make boots.

[-] sramder@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Chainsaw resistant boots! The zombie apocalypse accessory I did not know I needed until just now. Thank you friend :-) 

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