Thread: Is there anything we can do??
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kureyon is offline kureyon
2011-02-14 , 06:45
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#335
Originally Posted by alcalde View Post
Given that Nokia is spending much, much more than even Apple who also makes their own OS (wasn't it $2 billion vs. $464 million over the same time period?), this could result in a net savings.
I for one don't know how Nokia spent so much on R&D on Symbian and Meego and still made so little progress.

Nokia does have to stop the market share slide, however. They're not going to build an ecosystem overnight even with Microsoft's help
What "ecosystem"? They've ditched their own Ovi. So the "ecosystem" would be WP7 developers and apps. Which are not exclusive to Nokia. So how do they differentiate themselves? Make the best hardware equipped and fastest phones? How could they compete with Samsung seeing as Samsung can manufacture practically all parts of a phone themselves?

Why would Microsoft want to buy Nokia? They've always been about the software.
Because they want to get into this "mobile" business. Something that has eluded them for over a decade. Hollowing out Nokia and picking up the shell for peanuts to get at the patent portfolio would be the coup of the century for MS.

[quote]Finally, Elop is not a trojan horse sent into Nokia by Microsoft (who used mind control to get the board to hire him) to intentionally destroy Nokia (again while the board and shareholders are paralysed) ... [quote]The board have been promised lucrative paying non-executive positions on the MS board when they takeover the remnants of Nokia.