People were laughing at Nokia when they said they wanted to start making mobile phones. At that time, they only made tyres, galoshes and toilet paper.
Now, if Nokia keeps this quality and price on their mobile phones (if this really is what you get), I myself would recommend them to either fire their hackers or go back to the rubber production.
Hopefully though, they see that this is not going to work and that they have to do something about it.
At that time, they only made tyres, galoshes and toilet paper.
Eh? I don't think that's true. Nokia, just like Ericsson, made telephone switches and was involved in NMT, back in the 80s, when they started to make phones.
Of course it's not true, it's not even a hyperbole, it's simply completely false. Nokia was, for most of the 20th century, large industrial group, making many various things, consumer electronics and telecommunications equipment included. It wasn't like some backward poor finnish rubber-makers in the late 70's or 80's decided to get in a new business, not even remotely.
