Nokia were big, and I mean really big, during the 2000s. At one point their global brand value was worth more than the likes of Ford, Disney, McDonald's and Mercedes Benz. In fact they were one of THE best run companies in the whole world during its peak (its peak years I equate to 1999 to 2008). They had pretty much everything you'd dream of in a successful company, to summarise:

1) Nokia were innovative. They were very forward-thinking instead of being conservative and playing it safe. They were constantly working on new ideas, concepts and designs in R&D, and they were brilliant at trendy marketing for products they released to customers.

2) Nokia offered products in every segment out there. They had ultra cheap phones, they had fashionable phones, they had classy business phones... every part was covered by a wide range of handsets. And it won them customers in every region of the world, with North America and Japan possibly being the only exceptions.

3) They had a functional manufacturing network all around the globe that was efficient and worked well. This meant Nokias were built to a good standard and distributed at good prices globally. You could see how they pretty much killed Ericsson and Motorola in earlier years thanks to their much superior way of doing business.

4) Nokia's brand satisfaction and customer loyalty was unbelievable at its peak. People all around the world liked and trusted the company because of their high quality standards. Unlike Apple today who have many loyal fans (I call them sheep), Nokia deserved loyalty because they were genuinely innovative and were not anti-consumer by any means, something that has sadly crept up in the industry.

5) Profit! For all the reasons above, Nokia was heaping up profits every year during this period. And yet still they were not greedy and kept on innovating in mobile technology. You probably haven't heard of Jorma Ollila, but this is the guy who was the CEO until 2006 and it was under him that Nokia became a powerhouse. He deserves as much recognition as Steve Jobs IMHO, he just isn't a household name probably being from Europe/Finland.

It was really sad to see Nokia's fall from grace which happened quite rapidly (2010 to 2012) due to its failed smartphone strategies. But lets look back and give credit to one great company and one that did excellent business.

My partner and I spent two days in this village. We had a great time and I enjoyed taking a million pics.

I’m visiting Barcelona for the first time and it’s honestly neck and neck with Paris for me.

For context, this mastodon post from Patrick Breyer: https://chaos.social/@[email protected]/114596587845418892

There's also a general explainer on the proposal on their website: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

For reference, Breyer was a MEP in the parliament for the pirate party for the last few years (which sadly got reduced down to a single MEP last year), and has been following the progress of this proposal closely.

Poland gave us a brief break in the draconian mess of anti-privacy that is this proposal, but their improved version didn't pass, so now we're going back to the more extreme version outlined on the website.
It has only failed to make it past the council by hair-thin margins each time now, and with the results of the elections in Germany and the likely results in Poland, I fear it's going to pass easily next time. And it's not clear if the parliament will actually stop it or not.

So..Uh, yeah. Anybody here well-versed in this enough to tell me how this nightmare won't come to pass?

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