Nine people in Nokia recognized the huge threat posed by the iPhone<div class="feat-image">

</div><p>The fun <a href="
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https://9to5mac.com/2025/01/16/the-17b-gamble-made-on-the-basis-of-a-handshake-with-steve-jobs/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">we saw last week[/url] continue. A confidential internal presentation spotted within newly-published archives shows that at least nine people within Nokia realized the huge threat posed by the iPhone the day after it launched.</p>
<p>Sadly, senior execs failed to listen, and in just seven years Nokia went from owning the smartphone business to exiting it … </p>
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