Personally I think he was spot on, if a little short of the mark. The concept of a company nailing their colours to Android can also be to make profit, sell phones and get a brand going. A brand people want, because lets face it HTC have done it, Samsung have done it and Motorola were nearly done before Android came along.

Nokia might want to think about that as they continue to sit in their dark little places, silently playing with their many many phones and poor OS'. People, the ones with cash, the customers, want to spend money on cool stuff with apps, phone deals and hardware that works all the time. If Android works and it takes the heat away from a company who can then just make good hardware. Well then you get profit and your shareholders are happy, there is no customer back lash and you don't look like a failing mess of a company.

If that is a short term gain and long term loss then I think it is working for them. Maybe it is time for Nokia to pick one of the thigns they suck at, hardware or software and concentrate on that, because the N8 is pushed back for a better UI experience (youtube shows it to be sh*t) and the N900 sank. Not many of their high end phones are coming out the door with "Great" attached.

And now this morning there is an advert from 3 in the UK to win one of the "really exciting windows 7 phones", another OS for phone makers to buy into but one from a much larger company, MS, in terms of branding and customers. Very good news for customers, not very good for Nokia or it's shareholders. Afterall MS are all about the OS and learned the hard way (Vista, Winmo 6) what is good, they are not hardware manufacturers so that short term gain is looking all the brighter for those hardware makers out there who just do hardware.


Oh god what a horrible thought. People really want OVI as their app store?