Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft

The name is a bit of a pun: it's a form of the Finnish verb 'nokittaa', which means 'to raise [the bet]'.

Because what Nokia needs right now is a board full of nostalgic nationalists and yet another complete change of strategy and tech.

Can someone explain why Elop did a bad job? No one was buying Nokia phones anymore... they are now.

&gt; 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.

&gt; Corporate Culture Reboot to 2002<p>Wow, that would be very useful. Should we reboot Blackberry to it&#x27;s 2008 culture, Microsoft to 1996, Yahoo to 1999?

Honestly I hope they succeed. Lumia 1020 hardware with Android or Meego would be very enticing.

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.

I my be mistaken but the first sentence in that article is false. Microsoft has not yet bought Nokia (although they think and act like they have).

&quot;Android and Linux products&quot; - please, no!

Or just wait a couple of years until the block on using the brand on smartphones is removed and sell the name to Xiaomi, Huawei, or Lenovo.

Could work but I think they should remember this isn&#x27;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&#x27;s activist shareholders tanking the deal, perhaps by pointing out that buying Nokia&#x27;s factories and the whole legacy handset business including Series 30 and Asha is pretty crazy.<p>2. Nokia&#x27;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.

Doesn&#x27;t finland also now have an enormously successful &#x27;little&#x27; slice of the games industry?

Why? Those two are a pretty good match.

It&#x27;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&#x27;t an old friend of yours. There&#x27;s nothing to &quot;save&quot;. Raise your billions and hire some of their designers if you like the work that they do.