{"id":5746,"date":"2011-11-08T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=5746"},"modified":"2011-11-08T11:01:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T10:01:01","slug":"gavin-kim-to-microsoft-career-development-or-insidious-samsung-plot-to-destroy-nokia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/11\/gavin-kim-to-microsoft-career-development-or-insidious-samsung-plot-to-destroy-nokia\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Kim to Microsoft: Career development, or insidious Samsung plot to destroy Nokia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s either (a)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2011\/11\/07\/samsung-vp-gavin-kim-departs-to-lead-microsofts-windows-phone-product-management\/\">Gavin Kim moves from Samsung to Microsoft<\/a> because it&#8217;s a better job for him, it&#8217;s better for his family, and he wants to try something new.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;or (b)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Samsung know Android is dead, that all the lawsuits will kill it, and we don&#8217;t want to be beaten by Nokia again, so why not drop one of our VP&#8217;s into the top levels of Windows Phone so when we do decide to switch we&#8217;ll get preferential treatment and not be left behind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gotta love some of the geekerati commentary this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s either (a) Gavin Kim moves from Samsung to Microsoft because it&#8217;s a better job for him, it&#8217;s better for his family, and he wants to try something new. &#8230;or (b) Samsung know Android is dead, that all the lawsuits will kill it, and we don&#8217;t want to be beaten by Nokia again, so why not drop one of our VP&#8217;s into the top levels of Windows Phone so when we do decide to switch we&#8217;ll get preferential treatment and not be left behind. Gotta love some of the geekerati commentary this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2235,25,2245],"tags":[3352,132,281,2246],"class_list":["post-5746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-link-log","category-windows-phone","tag-gavin-kim","tag-microsoft","tag-samsung","tag-windows-phone-2","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1uG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}