Thread: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-07-19 , 17:47
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
If Nokia buys into the Android platform, its stock price will go up. Why? Because it's perceived as a safe option and no one can argue with that.
It may go up in the short term as they take the safe route, but in the long term they'll devalue their high end.

Nokia has the Symbian-Qt-MeeGo strategy going on now, all looking great on (technical) paper but it's actually still a big question mark for most people outside;
Sure, anything new has question marks. But in the end it's all about adoption and how well Nokia can push it. At the very least, they don't have the forward looking statement that Android vendors have to deal with.

especially after the last few boners Nokia has pulled out of its pants.
Colorful. Very.

At the very least Nokia can play to its strengths (hardware) and ride Android's hype; it may even learn a thing or two by keeping their enemies close while Symbian and MeeGo are being simmered to perfection.
Again, if Nokia releases an Android device it will cannibalize any future non-Android path. They can't go that way and still maintain any sort of independence from Google without a lot more effort.