Nokia furloughing up to 20 percent of employees at only Finnish factory
By Chris Ziegler 
posted December 17th 2009 10:44AM
posted December 17th 2009 10:44AM
Of its nine factories around the world, Nokia has just one in its home country -- the only one left in all of Western Europe -- in the town of Salo. As you can imagine, its well-being is probably a pretty touchy subject, not just for locals but for Nokia fans around the world -- especially when you consider that the company's highest-end devices are assembled here, making the health of the factory a bellwether for the health of the coolest models in the range. The company has revealed this week that it'll be sending home up to 20 percent of the plant's staff for up to 90 days at any one time, saying that there's simply no need for it to operate at full capacity in the current market; we say you could argue that making the right phones could lead to a need for full capacity, but what do we know? Anyhow, the move closely mirrors one that had already been made for 2009, and you could look on the bright side -- at least they're not closing it down the same way they did Jyväskylä.
All Aboard!!
The nokia train will be leaving for the FAILROAD track in 5 minutes.
Please have your tickets ready!
This is what they get for letting their Shitbian OS fester for years without doing any major upgrades...so now they finally decide to open source it after all these years...too bad WebOS, Iphone OS, and Android are already flourishing with multiple updates...I would even say that in the two years or so Android has been around, it's received more development and innovations than Symbian ever has in it's ENTIRE life cycle.
Anyone with half a brain could have seen this coming 5-6 years ago...We all knew Smartphones and Netbooks would be extremely popular in the future, and a huge part of the success or failure of that future would be the software platform that they run. Still Nokia did NOTHING -- producing model after model of crapware; antiquated, archaic, and obsolete interfaces, and phones with low ram and weak CPUs. It wasn't until the N900 came out (a few months ago!!!) that Nokia finally decided to step up -- and now they say there's only going to be 1 or 2 maemo devices in 2010 and the platform won't receive that much of an update? Are you kidding me? Someone needs to educate the execs at Nokia and tell them how to run a business.