Thread: Eldar and others: Nokia and Microsoft Discussing WP7
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2010-12-20 , 22:11
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Originally Posted by ndi View Post
I know WM isn't exactly gold now, but MS is big and committed and if a partnership is reached WM could be tuned to the hardware pretty well.
Which is kind of trivial, considering using WP7 lets MS dictate your hardware.

If anything, Nokia needs to establish a relationship with an OS that is young and malleable and backed by a large company. Intel's solution isn't a bad choice, but it may or may not work well. Having a backup is far from bad from any standpoint.
It's bad if the end result is surrendering your brand to someone else. This is a problem with Android too.

And frankly, WM might kinda suck now but it's too young to call and, if history has taught us anything (by us I mean Windows developers) is that MS work is well documented, with examples and a huge user base.
Which is great, I suppose, if you're only looking at it from the proprietary software perspective, or the disinterested consumer. I don't see how any of that matters here in a forum frequented by people who are interested in open source and mobile OSes that don't restrict what you can do.

I know I'm preaching to a select OSS crowd but it's not so bad, really, from developer and user standpoint. Not too good if you look to admin a Linux machine, though.
Why would you preach the "benefits" of what essentially iOS with a Microsoft face to a bunch of people who came here because of what Maemo is and is not relative to that OS?

On the good side, actual navigation.
Done on the N900. Nothing to do with the OS.

Oh, and, they aren't doing damage to MeeGo. People who make the distinction from Linux to Windows will have a choice and those who don't would have bought anyway. They'll see how it goes and favor the winner. It's bad business to put all your eggs in one OS.
Nah, going with any other OS would so totally undermine MeeGo it isn't funny. People will default to the "Microsoft Windows Phone 7 powered by Nokia" device instead of the MeeGo device.

I, for one, welcome out new MS overlords.
After seeing the past 14 years and what MS has done, no thanks.
 

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