Positions available in Finland:<p>Engineering Operations & Management (7)<p>Enterprise (5)<p>Marketing and Communications (1)<p>Sales (6)<p>Hardly work for the thousands.
Since Nokia's dropped the ball, Google should poach Nokia employees and go for an end-run around Apple, Microsoft, and the rest of the competition in the 3rd world.<p>Find a way to deliver rich services and develop a healthy developer ecosystem on <i>dumb phones</i>. (feature phones) Right now, people in developing countries are using services like banking over SMS the way we now use web apps and smartphone apps. This tells me there's latent demand.<p>By blurring the line between smart phones and feature phones, you can entirely undercut the smart phones. Get in there first, with less capable but cheaper phones people can actually afford, with services delivered more comfortably than SMS and with more cultural sensitivity than the usual outside company. As Moore's law continues to make processing power cheaper, the line between smart phones and dumb ones will blur, while at the same time, the citizens of the developing nations will become more affluent. Such a "blur phone" product and ecosystem will have already undercut the smartphones before they're even as real as a pipe dream and will have entrenched power of a network effect.
There are no real details about how many jobs will be cut, or where.<p>The quote "20.000 is a pretty significant number in Finland" seems to be related to the total number of Nokia jobs in Finland, not the amount to be cut. I think it's safe to say that the majority of jobs will be cut elsewhere, since Nokia will do all but severe any relationships with the government that has treated them very well.<p>Now as for Google's announcement - easy, right? Just a short notice and piggybacking for some PR. They are pissed for obvious reasons, so it's an understandable move (although their reactions were remarkably snark).<p>Overall, pretty sensationalist reporting, which is even more obvious when seeing how the writer dances along the fine line of using big numbers without clear language.
Google still running its PR-stunt after having its OS rejected.<p>But hey, it's Google so lets completely ignore that and give them credit like we wouldn't give any other company!