Thread: Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles
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2012-02-09 , 19:27
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Originally Posted by erendorn View Post
forgetting that MS pays Nokia a billion a year and that they have special licence agreement (ie, less than 24$, could even be nothing at all at the beginning for what we know) is not being "conservative"
It's not free. It's confirmed that they pay a fee and It's estimated to be $15 per handset. What I don't understand are the people saying Symbian needed to die because of cost. Are Nokia incapable of good management? how can outsourcing the OS save money? the only way I see that happening is if your management was poor in comparison. You also lose a lot of power, your "ecosystem", income from app sales and platform advertising. There is no reason why a high selling platform like symbian cannot be self sustaining other than poor management.