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2011-05-24 , 14:55
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Originally Posted by saldas View Post
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No. It would only make sense if Nokia would directly profit from Windows being their operating system (as in, sole rights to WP and no other manufacturer licencing it). As it is, Nokia is just another OEM among the rest. MS's deep pockets can only really benefit MS.

While we are at it, Symbian is a matured and stable product and Nokia also has quite deep pockets to improve it and evolve it into the dominant OS. Except they were bribed not to. I'm sorry, I don't see any sense in this whole thing.
That's not entirely true. Nokia will have it's own market in WP and OVI maps will change brand to Nokia maps. True Nokia maps will be licensed by all other WP phones as well, but then that's why Nokia bought Navteq for 8.1 billion couple of years ago, to widen the market. Nokia is also the only one that can customize WP.
Who knows if Nokia will example get the pleasure to get new version of WP first. Microsoft needs Nokia to make push, Nokia had other options as well.

Good to remember that when Nokia was breaking records, second most profitable tech company in the world, 63% market share etc. it was the time when Nokia owned 49% of Symbian and rest where owned by the likes of Samsung, SE and LG.
Those companies where also making Symbian phones, but because of the almost non visible edge that Nokia had on it's services it was Nokia that was dominating. Omnia HD had clearly the best hw of Symbian phones at the time, but Nokia destroyed it still and Samsu g stayed invisible in the smartphone market.
Last edited by tissot; 2011-05-24 at 21:25.
 

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