Thread: Nokia on the brink of failure
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2012-04-22 , 03:21
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Originally Posted by szopin View Post
Yes and no. They bet on not spending resources on R&D in soft (what is Nokia still known for? Awesome snake or rather sturdy handsets?) and using MS for that. Outsourcing coding division as much as hurtful for maemo does make sense in corporate view.
Meaning they went into direct competition with HTC and Samsung six months before they had a product to offer and with no counter-OS to mitigate their risk. As a CEO it was an utterly horrendous decision. At the very worst he should have shut his mouth about killing Symbian and MeeGo until they had a WP lineup launched. More responsibly he should have kept Symbian and MeeGo and licensed Android too.

I mean the whole argument is that Nokia were good at hardware not software so why go the unilateral exclusivity route? You only go with a single OS if you think it's the best and you own it outright. If you're expertise is the best hardware than you sell the most by having it work with the most software.
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