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2011-02-19 , 18:39
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
I think Nokia (at least a good amount of well placed people there) GOT the zen/tao of open. They opened Symbian and they were pursuing maemo (then MeeGo) for quite awhile.

But both of those pursuit ended in financial disappointment.

Nokia had problem executing. Orrrrrr... making money out of FOSS is just too hard for big corps?

Lastly, you're right about the smooth migration; but they wouldn't have gotten a great deal from MS that way.

I really think MS gave them a ridiculously good deal (in financial terms; upfront cash, potential shared revenues, etc) to get them onboard crazy ballmer's train.
I don't think "open SW or not" has anything to do with the problems at Nokia. Nokia in the end sells phones. And missed the train called smartphone - even now there is no real smartphone that is comparable to recent Samsung with 4''+ AMOLED screen and so on. Or just lay the N900 beside an Iphone 3 or 4. You see the difference? I do. Ok, Symbian was a problem. But it could have been solved QUICKLY by replacing it with Maemo and in parallel offering WP7 or Android phones to customers without commiting to these platforms.

In the end, a sustainable deal must also work out in a few years. Will MS buy Nokia phones in 2012, 13, 14? I don't think so. Nokia managment does an old mistake by not following customer needs and wishes for a short-term benefit of maybe a bn.$. This is not much considering the fact that Nokia will have hard time selling its phones from now on.
 

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