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On June 29, 2007, Steve Jobs announced that Apple will be launching its own
series of smartphones called iphone 1 which changed the mobile ecosystem
forever. While Nokia was busy in making features phone Apple had announced
smartphones.
Google also developed Android in 2008 and other competitors such as
Samsung, Gionee, Huawei, and HTE joined android and started making
smartphones. Nokia was too big to adapt to sudden change. So it placed its faith
on its hardware to make an impact on the market which starts Nokia failure.
Nokia failure was attributed to the wrong decision made by the company.
People think Nokia failed because it did not change which is not true at all.
Nokia changed but every change was opposite of android and ios were doing.
Once a company of $250 billion at its peak, it was sold to Microsoft for $7.2
billion on 2014 marking the end of an era of mobile phone giant.
Exercise 74. Watch video 1.8 and disucss it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUDKEbX5OQw
Answer the questions:
1. What is this video about?
2. Why was the man dressed so poorly?
3. Did you like the way he tried to explain the situation?
4. What would you if you were the hiring official?
5. How would you try to persuade a hiring official if you got into trouble and
were poorly dressed in an interview?
6. Would you hire Chris Gardner?
- Chris Gardner. How are you?
- Good morning. Good to see you again.
- Pleasure.
- I’ve been sitting there for the last half hour trying to come up with
(придумать) a story that would explain (объяснить) my being here
dressed like this. And…and I wanted to come up with a story that would
demonstrate qualities (качества) that I’m sure you all admire
(восхищаетесь) here, like…like earnestness (серьёзность) or diligence
(усердие). And, team-playing. Something. And, I couldn’t think of
anything. So, the truth is I was arrested (арестован) for failure
(неспособность) to pay parking tickets.
- Parking tickets? What?
- And I ran all the way here from the..The Polk Station, the police station.
- What were you doing before you were arrested?
- I was, uh…painting my apartment.
- Is it dry (сухое) now?
- Uh, I hope so.

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