By year-end Nokia phones will have it’s only in Asia has abandoned any work produced in Europe. The move has sparked a series of cuts in staff amounting to 4 000 job cuts in factories in Finland, Hungary and Mexico. The reason lies in an official statement to the effect that the assembly of the terminal ports in Asia the production closer to where they make the various components, while the other production plants will focus the appearance of software products.
It should be remembered that last year Nokia had made the decision to abandon Symbian, the operating system on which the owner had built their fortunes, to embrace Windows Phone from Microsoft. In return, Microsoft agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars per quarter for the support of its software platform.
But the bonds of Nokia’s fortunes with those of Microsoft seem to have suffered anemic sales of Windows facing a difficult recovery in the mobile market. By the end of last year, Nokia said that it exceeded the threshold of one million smart phones sold with Windows Phone on board. Now the Finnish company is attacking with Lumia other market such as China and Latin America. Bring the factories closer to emerging markets could be a decisive move.