Thread: NOKIA Rejected Android in Favor of M$ - Eric Schmidt
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2011-02-16 , 00:53
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
You seem quite sure that they didn't acquire their market dominance through NDA's, threats of pulling stock from shelves, strangling contracts and inventing clever legal maneuvers and loopholes to exploit over the years--which, ironically, seem to me to be backfiring lately? Weren't they kind of famous for that through most of the 80's and 90's?
Hey, that's all part of the game, right? All modern major companies use every tool available to them to succeed. Microsoft has often faced rivals just as cutthroat in business as they are. (And yes, Microsoft has many times had to pay for their cutthroat practices backfiring as well.)

However, through it all, they've somehow managed to find the perfect line to keep their products relevant enough to remain dominant in the market and their practices legal enough to keep from being broken up.

I am, as you may have noticed from my posts, no fan of Microsoft's products! But you've gotta respect how this company grabs any sector it enters by the throat and never lets go. Like many here, I have my suspicions that Nokia's recent WP7 decision is just one more instance of this amazing ability...