• mhague@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Nokia is like a mosquito that uses patents to leech off of other companies. What a great business model. A real useful niche they’re filling.

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      8 months ago

      Nokia invents patented technology they use in their products (hint, not a cellphone)

      Another company illegally uses this technology without a license

      Nokia sues them for using their proprietary systems without permission

      “Nokia is such a parasite”

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      Nokia Oyj is the part that Microsoft never bought. Their non-consumer-facing operations. Wireless tech and infrastructure, RnD, actual science.

      And they were and still are huge in that sector, you just won’t hear about them unless you work in internet infrastructure, because they no longer do consumer products like phones. (That’s a completely different company, HMD Global, which acquired the rights to use the brand for phones)

      Not a mosquito, more like IBM. Still around, still massive, but operating “behind the scenes” now.

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      8 months ago

      “What a mosquito”, he says to the trampling mastodon that basically runs all of the B2B wireless tech in the majority of the world.

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      8 months ago

      You realize they own Bell Labs, the organization that humanity owes the information age to, right?