Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th Feb 2011 11:35 UTC
A lot of people are wondering why Nokia didn't choose to go with Android. How can Nokia differentiate themselves when Android is a lot more open and free than Windows Phone 7? As usual, the key to this is in the details. If you read the announcements carefully, you'll see that Microsoft offered Nokia something Google most likely didn't. Update: What a surprise. Elop just confirmed Nokia has a special deal with Microsoft. Whereas HTC, Samsung, and so on are not allowed to customise WP7 - Nokia is, further confirming my theory.
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It's commonly accepted that 2011 was the last year they could have enterd the market with their own platform.
Hoping that it would be easier in say 2013 with market divided between 3 major players, incl. one that their present sales depend on is a pure nonsese.
Now I see their fate as a market dominant force was sealed long time ago (probably at the Iphone premiere). But a from accepting that simple fact to becoming a just an OEM... there's a whole world of options beetween that.
They should have start the harsh restructirization, preparing for inevitable scaling down of revenue a year ago and announce the results now. In the mean time they should have put all the resources on finishing meego early this year at latest.
The layoffs caused by becoming an MS OEM will be much bigger than that in the long term.
If in fact the MS way was the only sensible choice then it shows really dark picture: the biggest technology company in EU is incapable of innovating. For me being an EU citizen that's really sad state of affairs in the post crisis world.
It's Hard to be optimists about EU economy further prospects, after such and announcement.
Edited 2011-02-13 14:33 UTC