Jorma Ollila: Nokia missed the smartphone revolution

Nokia has plans to release a number of tablets and "hybrid" devices in an attempt to change the market position in the market of phones in their favor. This was reported in the Financial Times retired Chairman and CEO Jorma Ollila (Jorma Ollila). Mr. Ollila has left the company after 27 years of work, for which under his leadership, Nokia has grown from a small part of the industrial group with a market capitalization of 650 million dollars to the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer with a market capitalization approaching the 300 billion dollars. According to Jorma Ollila, Nokia will be the chance to attempt to push off from falling sales and enter the market with new and exciting form factors of devices and exclusive services. As for the problems that have plagued the company since 2008, that Mr. Ollila said that Nokia has been too slow in the beginning of the smartphone revolution. In 2006 he was lost when the phones are connected to the Internet, and demanded the creation of software platforms. Now the company can offer a combination of products and services that can allow it to stand out from other manufacturers. Including a very important and tablets, which should focus some attention, because in the future the market will have different form factors and hybrids. Speaking about the role of Stephen Ilop at the helm of the company, he noted that the collaboration with Microsoft will have its own benefit the company, but it takes time. According to Mr. Ollila, from mid-2008 things went wrong, as it should, and the pressure from Apple and Samsung growing, competitors were faster in the output of new products to market.