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2011-02-11
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Originally Posted by Turkishflavor
Like the most stupid stockholder is my guess MONEY.
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2011-02-11
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So, in reality what this means is:
MS get Nokia's (currently) established reputation in the handset market to push their smartphone OS on a broad scope of devices
MS get NAVTEQ on the cheap which will allow them to at least attempt to catch-up on the embedded systems market (eg. Audi recently Google adopted for their 3rd gen MMI)
Nokia gets ...
Um. What does Nokia get? A chance to sell some IMSIs in the US maybe? A chance to return to simply being a manufacturer?
Ah - Nokia unhook the Ovi millstone from their neck and the costs of maintaining Symbian and all their other expensive experiments.
It's pretty obvious now that this was on the cards a long time ago ; even possible the appointment of Elop was a means to start the transition.
Frankly I couldn't give a flying toss for Nokia other than admiration I had for their fringe pursuits such as the Linux implementation of their internet tablet and the fact that their old S40 handsets were absolute gold when it came to doing what mobile phones are supposed to do.
What does this mean for sponsored / financially supported ventures such as Meego Handset or indeed the ailing Maemo, not to mention the integration of Qt (the chat about MS providing tools to develop product seems to can Qt for me)? Abuse aside, Maemo still benefits from hosting services from Nokia etc - if they were to turn over all source to public domain, that would be interesting, but witness the hoovering up of Symbian - surely a requirement of the merger (did I say merger ... coughs).
We need a clear response regarding the future of Qt, Maemo services and Meego Handset ; I can see Meego itself being returned to Intel - the desktop version is refined enough to go it alone and isn't heavily reliant on the developed Qt framework.
F***ing depressed now. What a waste of time and effort. Apologies for the language.
Last edited by gregoranderson; 2011-02-11 at 08:16.
MS get Nokia's (currently) established reputation in the handset market to push their smartphone OS on a broad scope of devices
MS get NAVTEQ on the cheap which will allow them to at least attempt to catch-up on the embedded systems market (eg. Audi recently Google adopted for their 3rd gen MMI)
Nokia gets ...
Um. What does Nokia get? A chance to sell some IMSIs in the US maybe? A chance to return to simply being a manufacturer?
Ah - Nokia unhook the Ovi millstone from their neck and the costs of maintaining Symbian and all their other expensive experiments.
It's pretty obvious now that this was on the cards a long time ago ; even possible the appointment of Elop was a means to start the transition.
Frankly I couldn't give a flying toss for Nokia other than admiration I had for their fringe pursuits such as the Linux implementation of their internet tablet and the fact that their old S40 handsets were absolute gold when it came to doing what mobile phones are supposed to do.
What does this mean for sponsored / financially supported ventures such as Meego Handset or indeed the ailing Maemo, not to mention the integration of Qt (the chat about MS providing tools to develop product seems to can Qt for me)? Abuse aside, Maemo still benefits from hosting services from Nokia etc - if they were to turn over all source to public domain, that would be interesting, but witness the hoovering up of Symbian - surely a requirement of the merger (did I say merger ... coughs).
We need a clear response regarding the future of Qt, Maemo services and Meego Handset ; I can see Meego itself being returned to Intel - the desktop version is refined enough to go it alone and isn't heavily reliant on the developed Qt framework.
F***ing depressed now. What a waste of time and effort. Apologies for the language.
Last edited by gregoranderson; 2011-02-11 at 08:16.
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2011-02-11
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#13
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Oke..
Wondering where this may end..
Wondering where this may end..
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2011-02-11
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Originally Posted by Turkishflavor
Better reason NOT to sell your N900 !!!.
I guess the N900 will be the LAST completly OPEN phone! too bad!
windows 'effing sh**' phone is so damn close, there is NO mutli-tasking, you are forced to use this crappy ZUNE SOFTWARE, omg, what is nokia thinking?
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2011-02-11
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Oh you gotta be motherf**king kidding me!!! Zen of a b|tch! D**damnit! Great testicles of Thor!
Oukeydoukey, now that I'm over that, how does one crakz da NokindowsSeven phone so I can put WebOS on it?
Oh, did I mention, son of a b|tch!
Oukeydoukey, now that I'm over that, how does one crakz da NokindowsSeven phone so I can put WebOS on it?
Oh, did I mention, son of a b|tch!
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2011-02-11
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The most promising thing to happen the mobile industry was just killed. This was a public suicide by Nokia, they will never grow to dominate the market with optimal services now..
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2011-02-11
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#18
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Time to buy up all N900's there are....
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2011-02-11
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you ruined my day
EDIT:
Nokia: Symbian and MeeGo not dead, still shipping this year
I am just gonna leave this here
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/n...ing-this-year/
Last edited by yamakasi; 2011-02-11 at 08:43.
EDIT:
Nokia: Symbian and MeeGo not dead, still shipping this year
I am just gonna leave this here
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/n...ing-this-year/
Last edited by yamakasi; 2011-02-11 at 08:43.
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2011-02-11
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Originally Posted by mikecomputing
Why do you think it was a bank manager that told Elop to drop MeeGo and Symbian together?
Like the most stupid stockholder is my guess MONEY.
TBH, I'm relieved things didn't go the other way. Nokia jumping into bed with Google. I couldn't live with all the ads if Google get their way.
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