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Originally Posted by Ashbeck View Post
> Well if you think i'm making it up, Go read the press release for yourself. I can't be bother at the moment to go look for them.

Nokia is allowed By Microsoft, To make changes to the CORE Windows phone platform(where allowed) [Notice i said changes, and not customization] ,Nokia is helping to build and innovate, what Windows phone grows into, Not Skins, and not only for nokia devices, But for the whole, Windows phone experience.

> Specs and Innovations are two different things, I'm not windows fan boy, Not android fanboy, Not Meego fan boy, So i'm being objective, You need to see things from different point of views, Yes you like android, Yes google says android is Open source, but at it's CORE, it is not.
I can't be bothered finding a press release to cite your own point. For my part, you do realize I pointed out two platforms (Amazon Kindle and Nook Color) where changes (synonymous with customization) in Android were made at the CORE of the operating system (i.e. not just the skins), right? I think I provided a sufficiently lucent explanation of that and your language semantics danced around addressing the clear question I asked given the points I've made. I'm not sure that the openness of Android's operating system (even at its CORE... which, near as I can tell is open enough for Kindle/Nook/CyanogenMOD/etc) was ever brought up as a tangible point of this question about why Nokia wouldn't want to put what you seem to claim is such an excellent mapping program out onto other platforms such as Android. Your claim to objectivity is in question, considering the way you've skirted the question and provided clearly and provably incorrect argument back to a simple question: what mapping issue?

Originally Posted by Ashbeck View Post
I cannot remember why but Maps play a big part of it, think it has to be with companies paying royalties for map useage one of the reasons.

> But you might say, this is a small price to pay No, Not in the eyes of nokia, For Ex (Every-time i say Ex. i mean Example)
OK for Ex. Nokia Paid. 8.1 Billion for Navteq, and provide free off-line maps, which has been improved and refined(this is their biggest selling points), Google maps is a lose of investment..

Task: Find out how Google makes money off Google maps....

> But then you might say, what about Bing maps then?

Task: Find out who supplies Bing maps.

This is for the same reason Apple stopped using Gmaps for iphoto on iOs
Aren't you proving here why Nokia Maps should be on MORE platforms, like Android, not less? I'm still not sure you understand your own point.
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