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2011-02-11 , 16:08
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Originally Posted by mrojas View Post
You know, this makes me remember what happened to Danger. How Microsoft bought a company and essentially destroyed it, for nothing (the KIN phones where in the market for what, 6 weeks?).

Seriously, what was wrong with speeding up MeeGo, positioning it at the top of the OVI Ecosystem (second biggest App store) and strike a deal with MS to support enterprise services?

Shame on you, Elop.
And do that while Nokia was still number 2 in profits (Q4) only topped by Apple, and still leading in market share in both overall and smartphones, although in decline.

They waste just as much time with this strategy shift while giving up all the trump cards they had. Their scale is now against them. It only serves to drive Microsoft's ecosystem. I bet competitors are ramping up their WP7 projects already because suddenly that might be a viable competitor to Android and iOS and now you can out-do Nokia with HW only. They should've taken their scale advantage to drive their own ecosystem, to competitors' disadvantage but now they're totally playing for everyone else but themselves.
Last edited by jsa; 2011-02-11 at 16:11.
 

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