Nokia & Microsoft

[skywalk]

Current market share is not a good indicator of future performance.
The biggest and most profitable growth is in smartphones.
LOL, what is their share again?
Don't get me wrong, I love competition, but it seems Nokia dropped the ball a while back exactly due to their perceived dominance of market share. It may be too late to recover.
The lesson here is...
If you are in the lead, then everyone is chasing you!
Better to catch yourself and obsolete your own products.

[the.weavster]

Nokia holds 40% of the mobile phone market today.. 40%.. Think about that.
'Tomorrow' these two will teach Apple and Android a lesson they will never forget.

As well as their mobile market Nokia also have a huge portfolio of patents that Microsoft want to get their hands on.

Nokia have always been a visionary company, they have shaped the mobile industry into what it is today. Nokia invented the smart phone, at that moment they had 100% market share. Prettier and shinier things have since come along and stolen the limelight but none are technically better than Nokia's.

Qt and QtQuick is an absolutely outstanding development tool (I think the only thing on the same level for mobiles is the webOS Mojo framework) and it was so close to being the finished item. Once it was done Symbian could finally have had the UI it deserves.

Android is cool but it's Linux with too much of the Gnu goodness sucked out, MeeGo had the opportunity to be the proper fully-leaded Linux distro for the mobile platform.

Ovi was also starting to gain some traction but now it is going to be killed off too.

Sure recently Nokia's sales haven't expanded as fast as the over-all market but they have continued to expand, this portrayal of them as being in peril on a burning platform was total and utter bulls**t, it was a melodramatic smokescreen to justify his impending rape of Nokia. In reality they were a company on the cusp of producing the best developer tools in the industry to go along with the best hardware.

All of this great work that was so close to bearing fruit is now dead.

This deal benefits only one party, i.e. the one Elop holds large numbers of shares in not the one he supposedly works for.

Nokia is dead, terribly sad but true.

[utopiomania]

Nokia is dead, terribly sad but true

Pffft.. Nokia isn't dead, my E52 don't agree. It is a fantastic tool, and
with phone 7 inside, it can only get better.

[weavster]

Pffft.. Nokia isn't dead, my E52 don't agree. It is a fantastic tool, and
with phone 7 inside, it can only get better.

You would have to nearly double the speed of the processor in an E52 to meet the minimum spec required for a WP7 phone. Faster processors require higher voltages and the relationship between voltage and power consumption isn't linear, it's squared. So now you're munching your battery at nearly four times the speed what have you achieved? You've migrated from a true multi-tasking, resource efficient OS that offers USB mass storage, USB on the go, full bluetooth compatibility to any device, internet sockets, voip, IPSec, file manager, flash, J2ME, DivX/XviD, video calling, etc, etc.. to some (quite pretty) bloat-ware that has none of the aforementioned.

I'm genuinely shocked how an OS as capable as Symbian has suffered death by misinformation.