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What do investors know? They're just gambling on whether there'll be a positive or negative announcement in the next 15 minutes.

Enough with their self-fulfiling prophecies. I'm sick of them.

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Investors usually want a return on their investment. They are a smart bunch. Its capitalism after all.

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Interesting data on Lumias:

Kantar Worldpanel - July 2013 Windows Phone Share by country

Germany: 8.8% (+2.6% YoY)
GB: 9.2% (+5% YoY)
France: 11% (+7.4% YoY)
Italy: 7.8% (-0.5% YoY)
Spain: 1.8% (+0.1% YoY)
USA: 3.5% (+0.5% YoY)
China: 2.4% (-2.2% YoY)
Australia: 7.4% (+2.4% YoY)
Mexico: 12.5% (+10.5% YoY)

The biggest and most impressive individual gains were seen in Mexico (12.5%) and France (11%) where double digit Windows Phone sales figures were finally reached.

Re: Microsoft buying Nokia's devices & services
 

I was thiking about that aswell, if the shareholders say the price is too low, nokia will not be sold... so the best scenario would be: Shareholders say no, then Microsoft goes angry and resign from the offer, and then they break all partnerships with nokia for OS, so the only thing which nokia would have is to go back on Meego or android... :) and we would be happy again :D (but this is never gonna happen) :(

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My sources are reporting for france :

http://linuxfr.org/sondages/quel-sys...-utilisez-vous

Android :
1829
(59.5 %)

iOS :
268
(8.7 %)

Symbian :
96
(3.1 %)

Meego :
76
(2.5 %)

Blackberry :
58
(1.9 %)

Windows Phone :
54
(1.8 %)

FirefoxOS :
52
(1.7 %)

WebOS :
13
(0.4 %)

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:D Yeah, MS throws a chair at Nokia and decides it's from now on going with the 10% of the 3% they had. Sadly NOK has shitty negotiators it seems, with the whole WP market now being Nokia's, MS if it is seriously considering WP as a platform had a worse position in those discussions (and with the andoird-on-nokia-rant meme going just as strongly as unbreakable-brick meme, MS would just shoot themselves in the foot)

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It looks like a poll from 3076 voters, the statistics reported in mass media usually are based on a bit bigger group (but hey, bing translator on this site gave WP 50%, while google translate <3%, who would've thought)

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Investors usually want a return on their investment as soon as possible

Not smart. Greedy.

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What's your native language?

I didn't say anything one way or the other, I like to look at the facts before reaching a conclusion. I simply questioned whether or not you really knew what had caused NOKIA's share price to drop during the time frame of the graph you linked to. The answer is obviously not.

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so damn right!!!