Report: Nokia CEO Elop's Clock is Ticking on WP Gamble
Nokia's chief executive Steven Elop could soon face overwhelming criticism that could threaten his position.
Following the launch of the Lumia 920 smartphone, there are now reports that Elop is running out of time and that he may only have a few months left to turn the company around. A Reuters article, which refers to information from "investors and analysts", states that Elop will have to show positive results in the first half of 2013.
The agency quoted Greenwich analyst Magnus Rehle saying that "Elop has not been able to attract customers and that is what counts. You can say that he has not had enough time, but he has been there for two years. Time is up."
It is reasonable to assume that analysts will be calling into question Elop's one-horse strategy to run with Windows Phone if Nokia cannot benefit from the Christmas season. Juha Varis, analyst with Danske Invest Finnish Equity Fund said that a possible move toward Android would mean that the Windows Phone strategy failed. At this point, he would have to step down, since "he's totally a Microsoft guy."
Such an event would also be a major blow to Microsoft, which reportedly has invested more than a billion dollars into its partnership with Nokia.

Trying to stick his head on WP8 is not an good idea. Microsoft does not give Nokia WP8 exclusive. So why bother taking sides.
Being pretty isn't everything, proprietary solutions suck, must use Zune to load music and videos, Fail. Must recode music and videos to use on phone, Fail. Cannot bluetooth pictures to another phone, Fail..... the list is long, the Fail is obvious, the fact that even bribing people to take the phones they can't get above 5% penetration Fail.
I plan on buying a 920 as soon as they are released to my carrier. More and more people are hearing about WP and if they advertise well enough, I think there is a very good chance that the platform will catch on and grow.
Are you on crack? You can use free music downloader app's from the wphone app store for music, or you can just drag items onto your skydrive and play them from your phone. The audio/video formats that the phone can use is substantial and nothing needs recoded.
As for the inability to transfer files via bluetooth, this is more of a "pressure from the music industry issue" then a "lack of functionality issue." and there are numerous applications that were created that add this functionality to the phone if you really want it.
Trying to stick his head on WP8 is not an good idea. Microsoft does not give Nokia WP8 exclusive. So why bother taking sides.
No, but lets look at your defence, Down loader apps? poor quality, wastes your mobile data, Skydrive and stream to phone, messy work around and again wastes mobile data data, How much do the apps cost to fix the lack of Bluetooth functionality? What are they called, I have friends with Nokias who would love to use them.
It costs $0.
Sorry that only works on jailbroken phones running fully unlocked, epic Fail.
I've met him several times. He is a really nice guy
If you noticed they barely do articles on Android. Apple however.....
i lose my interest on win os, when i saw those ugly squares
The question is whether or not Android will continue to be able to use the crapple-style of GUI or whether they will be forced by crapple's lawyers to replace the current with something inferior. If the latter is the case, then WP8 could turn out to be the nicest non-crapple phone OS.