http://www.osnews.com/story/22422/Nokia_Exec_Talks_Ovi_Platform Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 24 May 2013 23:19:52 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?392358 http://www.osnews.com/thread?392358 Yeah, go Nokia, stick with that tried and true 'The customers love to get the shaft from their cellphone carriers and we're enabling them to pay their carrier for that shafting in exciting new ways!' business model.

Pretty exciting stuff. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (IkeKrull) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?392457 http://www.osnews.com/thread?392457 I dont understand your sarcasm.

The way of sticking with the carriers has proven to be successful in the majority of countries in the world (good or bad depends on ones perspective). Carriers tend to market the devices and to offer different plans for different segments of the market in each country.

As an example, in US people tend to get a new phone not by paying the whole price of the phone but by lingering with some "plan" for years. Same as in Argentina, Germany and so on...

Apple grew up with that and also Nokia and other companies...

The only thing Nokia should be focusing is more on content agreements for its own store. Apple will gain market by offering easy to download/use/consume, at least in US. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (HangLoose) Comments