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#17
Originally Posted by AndyNokia232 View Post
2011 will be quite a defining year for Nokia in this smartphone market. Android is ubiquitous, on your friends' phones, advertised on TV, subways, bus stops etc. Money talks and ***** walks. If Nokia can't pull a rabbit out of the hat this year (a rabbit wearing a Meego bowtie?), I can only expect their smartphones sales to continue to dwindle, while everyone and his wife buys iPhone 5 and Android phones. Nokia will rank nowhere near 1st and will have to settle with the releasing the kind of phones your parents think are cool.

I understand the problems Nokia would face releasing an Android powered device, and I for one would not rush down the street to buy one, but if it's easy money for them, surely as a business strategy, should they completely ignore it as an option?
Nokias smartphone sales is increasing. The rate of change is only surpassed by Android devices, but Android has to be devided between 20+ manufacturers. Nokias big problem with the N8 is to supply the demand, they cannot produce enough.

I am sure Nokia has done analysis that tells then rather clearly that going Android is not an option in the long run. If that analysis did show the opposite result, Nokia would already be selling Android devices.

On the other hand, I don't see anything preventing Nokia from installing a Dalvik VM on Symbian or any other platform for that matter. I mean why not? RIM is supposedly doing it.