I know you’re going to say ‘what’? An Egyptian autocrat, a Swedish phone maker and Japanese electronics giant in one article? But there is a very big similarity between these 3 subjects that’s brought 2 of them to their knees, and polarised popular view against the third:
CHANGE
Yip, both Mubarak and Nokia have been anti-change for 30 and 15 years respectively. But what’s the issue with Nokia and Microsoft teaming up? Every company that has ever got into bed with Microsoft has ended up being absorbed by the behemoth or in a state of collapse. Witness the latest victim, Novell. There’s only one outcome for Nokia regarding their deal with Microsoft – death. Nokia could have competed against Apple ( and now Android ) with a decent smartphone in 2009 as well as a working app store – instead we got the N97 and Ovi – both of which were useless. In 5 years time, Nokia will be irrelevant and just a historical footnote, albeit a big one. And all this because of lack of vision and the will to change.
Just as Mubarak is now. The force of electronic communications and the will of the people has brought about the removal of a political giant in just 18 days. Something that has been impossible in the past even with wars and civil unrest.
And Sony? Its antics in the last few years with the embedding of rootkits in its products and the debacle now with the release of the PS3 root key ( Sony, please tell us how you go about collecting every copy of the key that’s been released on the Internet, esepcially after your own marketing firm sent it to 70000 twitter followers? ) is excacerbating an already unpopular view of the company. If the MPAA and RIAA having pissed off many by going after their own customers is anything to go by ( while essentially defrauding their clients ), then big business is going to have to learn change to prevent itself from falling into the same trap.
What’s becoming evident is that the masses are gaining power; as electronic communications and social networking allow pockets of protest to become a groundswell, so the voices of the masses bring about change.
Both political entities and private companies had better start learning, otherwise they could find themselves as a thing of the past.
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