Nokia’s CEO – Stephen Elop (Yi Luopu as he is known by the Chinese) has been visiting Nokia Beijing on a number of occasions since he took the reigns at Nokia six months ago and even more now since Nokia and Microsoft’s partnership announcement in February of this year, for reasons being that the Beijing is one of the four principal global hubs for innovation to the Nokia Windows mobile, S30 and S40 Research and Development operations.
On one of these recent visits to Beijing, Anna Shipley of Nokia Conversations – China, caught up with Stephen Elop for a short interview. In the interview, Elop illiterates once again the importance of the partnership with Microsoft, their new strategy, roll out, renewal and challenges faced ahead – in his own words ‘Nokia has to move forward faster and more aggressively now, than we have ever done before because of the competition’. He talks about the importance of creating a great environment for developers of applications so that they can be effective, especially with the new Windows platform on Nokia devices.
He also mentions that investment in Symbian will continue with support and updates way into 2016, with new apps, customer service and all of the elements that Symbian customers are currently experiencing.
Let’s take a look at the interview below:
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