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	ysss	2010-07-19 , 17:56
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Originally Posted by wmarone

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.

You're assuming that everything will go 'brilliantly right' at this point for Symbian and MeeGo. Even if they go 'just alright', they have a very tough uphill battle against 3-4 other platforms with a headstart. (Considering S^4 is a reboot).

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.

Let's put a bit more details in that sentence to narrow down the prediction:

"Sure, anything new from Nokia in the smartphone segment..."

That does spin it in a different way, doesn't it? They haven't been shining in that particular area...

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.

Or, it can be Nokia's lifejacket if their current plan goes down in flame.

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