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alcalde is offline alcalde
2011-02-11 , 09:56
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Originally Posted by Rauha View Post
It's bad because it makes Nokia only an OEM. Nokia won't die. It's turning into a logo printed on a box. Great if you are Nokia fanboi buying anything for a logo. Not so great if you actually want to have more options in the market place, care about unique platforms or invested into Nokia stocks based on how Nokia used to do it's business.


How Nokia used to do its business has resulted in steadily declining market share. In that case, change is good for the stock, not bad. It might be sad, but not bad. They failed to deliver a next-gen OS so they couldn't be the sole developer of all components at this time. Bad would be for them to deny that fact and continue struggling until it was too late to introduce a new system. Nokia will be shaping WP7 so this won't make them just an OEM. Other companies are OEMs. Nokia is partnering with Microsoft. It's a collaboration and there's no shame in that.