The end of UIQ
2 January 2009 by Olav Hellesø-Knutsen The Sony Ericsson owned company UIQ files for bankruptcy according to CEO Johan Sandberg The Swedish newspaper Sydöstran reported on wednesday that UIQ Ronneby was filed for bankrupcy. CEO Johan Sandber said the owners will not provide any more financial support. Two months ago, the two owners Sony Ericsson and Motorola garanteed for the emploees paychecks, but would not say for how long. The current world economy made it difficult to find investors willing to insert more capital in the company. Around 200 people was still working for UIQ during the last day of 2008. History of UIQ 1998 1999 2002 2003 2004 2005
2007 2008 Comments On 7 Jan 03:33 EPDM wrote So in the end what's left of Psion (whom started all this) will be gone. Divided amongst SE and Nokia and in the end killed off completely. So yet another prime of true European innovation gone to pieces (literally). The end is near. I give Sony-Ericsson no more than 1 year. By the time the fully addopt the dreadfull WinCE platform it'l be gone. Ofcourse Microsoft WILL also have it's share of problems by then... yeps... we're doomed. On 6 Jan 15:16 charlie wrote good riddance , UIQ wasnt that good and was slow On 6 Jan 04:43 Nikos wrote This article was published here almost a year ago, proved to be more that correct... http://mivadika.com/forum/software/1935-symbian-uiq-slowly-dying.html On 5 Jan 03:11 curious wrote So the same CEO helms the company and make losses for 8 straight years, no one in the company or no investor(s) had anything to say to that? Wonders how much money this *** has brought home for himself for the past 8 years. On 4 Jan 08:43 rdt wrote Sad to read this. I like UIQ over S60. On 3 Jan 08:39 Prom1 wrote I got one CEO that came close to not making a profit for almost 8yrs - Palm/PalmONE/NEC Palm all had several CEO's that barely made a profit for say 4yrs. However, we may still see UIQ technology bits go into the new Symbian OS from SYmbian Foundation late in 2009. On 3 Jan 05:11 Anand wrote UIQ could be far more better but we going to miss it for sure :) On 2 Jan 23:45 strizlow800 wrote And 2009 UIQ is dead... :) Anyway, it was (and still) is a great platform with good potential for development of apps and games... It handles very well with touchscreen phones :) and can be very useful.. But it a bad thing we won't see any new UIQ phones in the future. On 2 Jan 22:23 TheexUIQemployee wrote UIQ Technology was very badly managed. The senior managment team were not qualified to run the company and none more so that the CEO. He was an awful manager who would shout at people in front of groups, send emails ccing a number of people really aggressively attacking people with personal remarks. I was quite shocked by the behaviour of the CEO and the lack of experience within the management team. UIQ Technology and Johan Sandberg had an opportunity to be a player in the mobile industry handed to them and they failed time and time again to deliver. What CEO of a company stays as CEO when the company did not make a profit for 8 years!!!!! |
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