Thread: Another proof Elop is a trojan horse
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ericsson is offline ericsson
2011-07-07 , 16:51
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Originally Posted by shallimus View Post
Agree. Google turns the stuff they give away into one of the biggest advertising revenue streams on the planet. Past the Golden Pick-up-the-soap one-time payment from MSFT to Nokia, what was Nokia's plan to make money from all this again?


To spell it out: two phones have identical Ovi map services. One phone is from Nokia. One is from HTC, and has a bigger screen, which acts as the tie-breaker in a purchasing decision in favour of the HTC Phone. Nokia loses a sale.

In conclusion:
  1. give away the cool stuff which previously allowed you to differentiate your products from those of your competitors
  2. ???
  3. Profit!
So what you are saying is that bigger screen always win Seriously, that is exactly what you are saying. So Nokia should protect their Ovi Map in case some other manufacturer releases a device with a larger screen.

As I said, you simply cannot understand this except on the basis of ecosystem. It is the services that makes money, the devices are only platforms for the services. Ovi Map = Nokia Service. I cannot think of a better way to extract $ from your competitors than putting your high valued service on his device.