We’re unequivocally starting to miss Anssi Vanjoki when he leaves Nokia in the couple of months. The straight-shooting Finn brings a infrequently astonishing though always entertaining level of honesty as well as passion to an otherwise undisturbed consumer wiring attention. Of march, we’ve all been wondering why Anssi announced his abdication from Nokia so unexpected after saying in July which he was “committed, maybe even obsessed” with taking Nokia behind to a number a single position in high-end inclination. Easy, “I didn’t become the CEO,” said a 20 year Nokia veteran in an extended chronicle of a interview first published upon Tuesday. Anssi afterwards added, “You know who a guy is it’s not you… so what do you do, you stay or you leave. I motionless to leave.” While not woeful a preference to hang with Symbian in a final few years, he does admit that it can’t contest with Apple’s iOS or Google’s Android in touchscreen smartphones — a Symbian rewrite took (or is receiving, depending upon your perspective) too long. The second problem, he says, is Nokia’s deficiency from a US marketplace. In particular, Silicon Valley, the “iota,” as he calls it, for a software growth behind all those “crazy apps everyone keeps articulate about.” Unfortunately, a 54-year-old Anssi has no destiny plans which he’s peaceful to discuss. “I need a devise. My devise is to devise,” he says.

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