[citation][nom]azraa[/nom]About the recession, and the bigger picture of it all:I personally think that AMD and Nokia are in the wrong here. Pretty much anyone these days is making 'budget cuts' and 'reducing costs' but what they get is to devalue their market price by lowering trust from investors. Taking back your money from the game to save it leads to everyone doing the same, its a circle.
Have you ever heard of the New Deal, way back in time from the Great Depression?Investment and daring is what the market needs right now, and the IT sector should be the leading front on that matter: creating constant change, bringing back jobs with your devices/software, and making the capital flow again, even if you have to acquire debt on the initial step.[/citation]
What if the gamble fails? For example: AMD's Bulldozer and Piledriver? Nokia junking Symbian and taking on WP7? Microsoft Kin? Blackberry Playbook? HP's acquisition of WebOS?
A company has to survive first before making innovations. Sometimes these gambles don't work and the company needs to cut losses. If that still doesn't work, then the company needs to go away. Free market means the freedom to succeed as well the freedom to fail. Creative destruction at its best.
I love Nokia phones. I really hope Nokia can stay afloat until the market adopts WP8 in larger chunks. If it means the company needs to scrounge together some cash by selling its building and land, then so be it.