There were rumors that Nokia was looking to replace OPK as President and CEO of the company after a fairly steady decline in profits as their market share has held fairly steady over the past couple of years. Mr. Stephen Elop is currently in charge of Microsoft’s Business Division and will take over as President and CEO on 21 September. I will be at Nokia World in London next week and am curious if we will hear from Mr. Elop next week.
I think Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo (OPK) has done a good job over his thirty years at Nokia and championed some great products from Nokia, but now is the time to get the company back on track to more success and a fresh leader is probably what they needed to get things kicked off. From what I understand there will probably have to be many more leadership changes to get things going, but usually when a new CEO comes in they do make such changes so that leadership aligns with the objectives of the new leader.
Matthew Miller started using a Pilot 1000 in 1997 and has been writing news, reviews, and opinion pieces ever since.
Disclosure
Matthew Miller
Matthew is a professional naval architect by day and a mobile gadget freak at all other times. He purchases his own devices and then sells them on eBay or Craigslist to buy more. Many other devices are sent for review on a 30-day loaner basis and then returned to the carrier or manufacturer. If any are provided as “long term loaner units” this will be clearly disclosed in his reviews.
Biography
Matthew Miller
Matthew Miller started using a mobile devices in 1997 and has been writing news, reviews, and opinion pieces ever since. He is a co-host with GigaOM's Kevin Tofel on the MobileTechRoundup podcast and an author of three Wiley Companion series books. Matthew started using mobile devices with a US Robotics Pilot 1000 and has owned over 125 different devices running Palm, Linux, Symbian, Newton, BlackBerry, iOS, Android, webOS, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone operating systems. His current collection includes an HTC Radar 4G, Dell Venue Pro, Apple iPad 2, HTC Flyer, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Nokia N9, Apple iPhone 4S, MacBook Pro, and many more, along with tons of accessories and classic devices like the Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 and Sony CLIE UX50. Matthew can be found on various discussion forums under the user name of "palmsolo".
