Thread: Qt headed to WP ?
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SamGan is offline SamGan
2012-01-02 , 02:18
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#27
Originally Posted by automagic68 View Post
You realize if WP fails then the Nokia Microsoft partnership will fail and ultimately Nokia's smartphone division will fail. Whatever marketshare/mindshare Symbian has is getting swallowed up by iOS and Android at an ever increasing rate. For atleast the next three years, it's in every Nokia fans best interest that WP is a success with the help of Nokia. With three major OSes for smartphones each with roughly 25-35% marketshare/mindshare, Nokia would have the opportunity to release a FOSS “disruption” after splitting with MS. Hopefully the MS Nokia partnership can give Nokia the opportunity to have a dominant global marketshare/mindshare again.
What's to stop Nokia regaining its independence if the MS-Nokia partnership fails? In fact the best thing that can happen now is for Lumia to fail quickly and spectacularly so that the MS mole Elop can be booted out before Nokia sustain too much damage.

Nokia has shafted aside its own promising MeeGo OS in favour of MIcrosoft's. It does not control the hardware specs or OS of WP7, is unable to distinguish its phones from other WP7 manufacturers and earns nothing from the app store.

However Nokia's dalliance with MS may be fatal. A Wall St. consultant which regularly compiles a list of brands that are going to disappear in the near-term has named Nokia on its latest list. This company has been prescient in the past and accurately predicted the death of T-Mobile.

http://247wallst.com/2011/06/22/247-...ear-in-2012/4/
 

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