Osborne effect
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The Osborne effect is a social phenomenon of customers canceling or deferring orders for the current, soon-to-be-obsolete product as an unexpected drawback of a company's announcing a future product p
An Osborne 1 from 1982
An Osborne Executive
An Osborne Vixen prototype
Stephen Elop
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Stephen Elop is a Canadian businessman who most recently worked at Australian telecom company Telstra from April 2016. In the past he had worked for Nokia as its first non-Finnish CEO and later as Exe
Osborne effect
…failure as well, and Sega's exit from the console industry in March 2001. Another example of the Osborne effect took place as a result of Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop's implementation of the plan to shift away from Symbian to Windows Phone for its mobile software platform. On top of this, criticism of existing products…
Elop in 2008
Elop on stage at the 2014 Mobile World Congress