Poor Nokia

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Won't be their end but they'll now be a second-tier OEM rather than a platform holder: they gave up leadership of the field from a leading position and that's unheard of in any industry!
 
Won't be their end but they'll now be a second-tier OEM rather than a platform holder: they gave up leadership of the field from a leading position and that's unheard of in any industry!

It wasn't at all sustainable though, otherwise they wouldn't have done it. They aren't stupid you know :p
 
Nokia shares tumble after Windows Phone 7 announcement

Following Nokia's official announcement that it will be partnering with Microsoft, shares have tumbled, reaching session lows as of writing of down 14.50 percent on 700 percent average volume.
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced this morning that Nokia smartphones would now run the Windows Phone 7 operating system, a huge move for Microsoft which instantly gains a worldwide footprint, but a tough admission from Nokia that they have been slow on innovating in the burgeoning smartphone market.

In just 4 years, Nokia's smartphone share has fallen from 51 percent to 27 percent, losing all of its share to Android and Apple. Microsoft was once a leader in that market as well, but has seen its share fall to single digits.

Elop says the partnership will "jointly create market-leading mobile products and services designed to offer consumers, operators and developers unrivalled choice and opportunity."

In Windows Phone 7, the Nokia Ovi Store will be merged into the Marketplace and all Nokia smartphones will have Bing as the default search engine. Furthermore, WP7 will add Nokia's NAVTEQ maps.

Says one analyst of the deal:

It’s a clear admission that Nokia’s own platform strategy has faltered. Microsoft is the big winner in this deal, but there are no silver bullets for either company given strength of iPhone and Android.



After Elop's speech 1,000 Nokia employees allegedly walked out of company headquarters in protest of the move. Nokia says the number was a lot less and called the walkout "a mass exercise of vacation time."
 
It wasn't at all sustainable though, otherwise they wouldn't have done it. They aren't stupid you know :p

I don't get why people think so. Symbian's only problem was the crappy UX, and that's easy to fix - it's not a basic limitation of the OS, it's just what kind of GUI you choose to stick on top of it!
And with Nokia phones still dominating the market, they could've easily hung in there until Meego was ready, which isn't too far away!

The only way this would've made sense for Nokia was if Microsoft had given them exclusivity. As it is, it strands their hundreds of millions of Symbian users and their entire developer community for both Symbian and Meego onto a dead platform with no migration path.
 
Wow...I did not see this coming at all. I thought they were going to stick to their guns and release meego. Developers are definately going to be ****ED OFF!

And what about poor Intel??!! They had the backing of INTEL! Whose has more influence, intel or microsoft? What happened to all the 'Qt is the best thing since sliced bread'. I have an N8 (great device imo) so does this mean I'm not getting anymore updates??? Really dissapointed imo all they needed was a ui revamp for symbian

Only winner I see here is Microsoft

Stephen Elop the Trojan Horse?
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