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tkatchev is offline tkatchev
2011-02-13 , 18:50
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Originally Posted by Rugoz View Post
LOL, well I still think meego would have been the better OS.

But lets face some facts here. At some points this whole apps ******** will be over. Everything will be HTML5, so your own developer tools are not that important anymore.

What matters are all the services you provide, and the hardware. So focusing on those two is important.

I just fear that Nokia will loose lots of brand value.
Come on people. Wake up -- Nokia is dead, finished, regardless of whether the WinPhone OS sells well or not.

If WinPhone tanks, then Nokia is dead. (Since they have placed all their bets on the WinPhone and just destroyed whatever backup plan they might have had.)

In WinPhone is successful, then Nokia is also dead. In this case Microsoft sends Nokia a kiss and goes on to sell OEM licenses to HTC, LG, Samsung, etc. Nokia is left to compete as just-another-OEM on a playing field where they cannot win.

This so-called "partnership" benefits Microsoft and only Microsoft: it gives WinPhone (a very unfinished OS and a very risky platform) a buffer of one-two years to beta-test on a large, international base of consumers.
 

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