Thread: Winners and losers
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GeraldKo is offline GeraldKo
2011-02-17 , 19:12
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#24
Talk about losers! This from Engadget's interpretation of a Phone Scoop interview with Nokia VP Savander:
Turns out (or at least Savander claims) that Nokia's essentially being granted carte blanche for deep customization of the platform, though it's likely only to do that by pushing changes back to Microsoft for inclusion in future releases that would be available to every manufacturer, not just Nokia.
So Nokia is free to do R&D that it then gives to Microsoft, which, of course, would have absolute discretion about including it, and which is then on every manufacturer's Windows phone.

I think the Engadget interpretation may be off the mark (maybe Nokia gets to put stuff on top of Windows Phone, unlike other licensees?), but if it's accurate ...