Thread: Microsoft is the plague: Nokia stock drops 14% as 1,000 employees walk out
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chowdahhead is offline chowdahhead
2011-02-14 , 15:48
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Originally Posted by Turbanato|2 View Post
Microsoft just booted Nokia billions of dollars for the financing of thier new "mobile ecosystem"... i wonder how much money mincrsoft is actually giving to nokia to start this new project.
i honestly believe this combination will do some serious damage. The number one phone company + number one software/OS company = virtual suicide.
In return, over the long term, this may cost Nokia heavily. It's been confirmed that they'll be paying a license fee on each device they produce--it might not be the $15-$20 that other manufacturers pay, but it will deeply cut into their margins in comparison to what Symbian/Maemo/Meego offered them.

This is a subsidy, which other manufacturers have received also. It's not an injection of capital, Microsoft is paying for something specific in return. Part of that undoubtedly entails dumping open source.

Nokia+WP7 may increase their North American marketshare, but I don't know how this will appeal to Europe and Asia. It makes the tablet market completely market out of reach now.
 

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