{"id":8364,"date":"2013-09-03T18:46:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T17:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=8364"},"modified":"2013-09-03T18:46:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T17:46:24","slug":"stephen-elop-and-the-trojan-horse-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/09\/stephen-elop-and-the-trojan-horse-that-never-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Elop and the Trojan Horse that never was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/allaboutwindowsphone.com\/features\/item\/18292_Lets_talk_about_the_Trojan_Hor.php\">hopefully rational thinking<\/a> by myself over on All About Windows Phone, given the news today of Microsoft&#8217;s purchase of Nokia&#8217;s Devices and Services division:<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"description\">\n<blockquote><p>The thinking goes something like this. As an entity, Microsoft calls Stephen Elop into a smokey room, asks him to leave the company to become CEO of Nokia, stop all the Finnish OS developments and switch the company to Windows Phone. Elop will then proceed to make a decent (but not profitable) line of handsets, drive the stock price down, and allow Microsoft to buy Nokia. At which point Elop will be brought back into the bosom of the Redmond family to be handsomely rewarded. Really? Really!?! Lets come back to the real world shall we?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<blockquote><p>Today&#8217;s news of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/allaboutwindowsphone.com\/news\/item\/18290_Microsoft_to_acquire_Nokias_De.php\">Microsoft&#8217;s purchase of Nokia&#8217;s Devices and Services division<\/a>\u00a0was met with the expected chorus of conspiracy theorists, now with the added sugar frosting of Elop being future-gifted the CEO role of Microsoft for his troubles.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately business doesn&#8217;t work like that. For a start, the above scenario is clearly illegal, and would also require a significant buy in from so many people, including the Nokia Board themselves. Put simply, this is not an episode of &#8216;<em>Hustle<\/em>&#8216;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not that it will change anyone&#8217;s mind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some hopefully rational thinking by myself over on All About Windows Phone, given the news today of Microsoft&#8217;s purchase of Nokia&#8217;s Devices and Services division: The thinking goes something like this. As an entity, Microsoft calls Stephen Elop into a smokey room, asks him to leave the company to become CEO of Nokia, stop all the Finnish OS developments and switch the company to Windows Phone. Elop will then proceed to make a decent (but not profitable) line of handsets, drive the stock price down, and allow Microsoft to buy Nokia. At which point Elop will be brought back into<\/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":[13,4,2245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-to-my-articles","category-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-windows-phone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2aU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8364","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=8364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}