> On this last point, they talk about leveraging a non-corporate image, like the Dudesons or Madventures, and throw “the largest events, gigs, and parties of human kind”.<p>Well that sounds really sustainable.
> Corporate Culture Reboot to 2002<p>Wow, that would be very useful. Should we reboot Blackberry to it's 2008 culture, Microsoft to 1996, Yahoo to 1999?
This will probably not happen.<p>I think Nokia will help Microsoft to compete with Apple in the field of smartphones, especially with custom-designed hardware and exclusive OS.
Could work but I think they should remember this isn't an OS thing but an app thing.<p>BlackBerry and Nokia are still producing very good phones. But they failed to jump the app train. Blackberry may survive since the new OS supports Android apps. Nokia should work on this as well.<p>There are rumors that Nokia is still working on an Android Lumia.
Probably not this proposal, but there are a couple scenarios that could lead to Nokia being a takeover target:<p>1. Microsoft's activist shareholders tanking the deal, perhaps by pointing out that buying Nokia's factories and the whole legacy handset business including Series 30 and Asha is pretty crazy.<p>2. Nokia's board concluding that, now that they are rid of Elop, could reboot Nokia themselves: spin Jolla back in, and start selling Sailfish and Android smartphones.
It's really weird how people have started to anthropomorphize these corporations and their products...why do this? If you could raise billions you could start a new endeavor?<p>Nokia isn't an old friend of yours. There's nothing to "save". Raise your billions and hire some of their designers if you like the work that they do.