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Originally Posted by jnwi View Post
It also raises a big question: since Nokia didn't do this two years ago, what were they hoping to accomplish by making their own email service instead of outsourcing the backend in the first place? Has some big part of their strategy failed or did they realize replicating things in house was stupid?
Maybe they underestimated costs of scaling up the service. Ovi Mail has now 9 million users and it's growing fast.