Thread: Live from MWC 2011 Barcelona
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Rugoz is offline Rugoz
2011-02-13 , 18:58
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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.
I don't know the details of the deal, so I won't rule that out.
But if Nokia provides key services to the wp7 ecosystem MS cannot easily get rid of them.

The problem is nobody knows nokia is behind those services, so they are not associated with the nokia brand.

Honestly I still think Symbian/Meego/Qt and OVI services would have been the better option, but I can at least see a logic behind the decision.