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Microsoft Purchases Nokia's Device and Services Division to Unite Windows Phone Hardware and Software
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Bye bye, Nokia.
At one point, you were my preferred handset maker. I had a 3210 back in the day. Then you became irrelevant. Now you'll be rebranded into Microsoft. It's probably for the best, but I wonder if you'll become relevant again.
At one point, you were my preferred handset maker. I had a 3210 back in the day. Then you became irrelevant. Now you'll be rebranded into Microsoft. It's probably for the best, but I wonder if you'll become relevant again.
I think Nokia gave a good move .. It's giving its main lumia to microsoft and now it can develop on android without any problem
Maps, patents, and networking gear ... although they have sold the gear division to Siemens.
That's with a smartphone & OS that aren't allowed to be as tightly integrated at iPhone & iOS are. Now they can be.
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Steve Jobs proved that the full hardware/software control is what works. However Samsung is a sort of hybrid case with their Touchwiz over Android.
I wonder how many people have been throwing around this buzzword in the last decade and even quoting "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" without knowing Socrates' little story about the Thracian doctor (and hence attributing this to Aristotle).
Not that it would be even remotely related. But then again, Lumia has been pretty much handed to palliative care, so maybe it is – somehow.
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Other way around, they're buying back the infrastructure back from Siemens.
Been wondering how they were going to finance that move, it all makes sense now.
So Ballmer announces a major restructuring at Microsoft, then a month later he is fired, er retires, then a couple weeks later Microsoft announces they're acquiring Nokia and Stephen Elop who will now run Devices for Microsoft, even though a month or so ago that function was given to Julie Larson Green. Phew.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to announce the Nokia acquisition, Ballmer's retirement & replacement CEO and restructuring at the same time, rather than 3 separate events all within the span of a month or so?
Wouldn't it have made more sense to announce the Nokia acquisition, Ballmer's retirement & replacement CEO and restructuring at the same time, rather than 3 separate events all within the span of a month or so?
Lenovo's, Acer's, and Asus' sales grew by quite a bit last year. Yeah, the PC market shrunk 10-15% last year, but it's only really hurting the old mainstays: Dell and HP.
And I doubt MS will be giving up on their old Windows standards. I think that'll continue par for the course.
This is big news. Non Apple phone companies are becoming more unified with their own manufacturing and OS, such as google/motorola and now nokia/microsoft The competition is hotting up.
They'll be dazed and confused for a long long time yet - a hangover if you will.
Neither Nokia or Microsoft are anything close to what they've been in the past, they're both flat-footed right now - at best.
This deal won't change any of that. Indeed, the integration of NOK into MSFT may sink MSFT entirely.
Doubt it. WP has been growing slowly and steadily since it first came out a couple years back. If MS can keep things going smoothly, they'll have their own goodly sized chunk of the marketplace by 2015, I think.
Why do Android people always have to make it about THEM?!
How is Android even involved? This news actually kills any chance of Android making it's way to Nokia devices. Not only does Tim Cook and company have to worry about Android they now have to worry about Nokiasoft. When Apple ends up in third place under this phony CEO you will remember this day.
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I have a Windows Phone and I vastly prefer the Live Tiles to iOS, at least on a phone. It gives me far greater control over what's displayed on my screen, which at only 4"-5", has a premium of space. I can resize tiles, which I can't do on iOS; I can change their colour scheme, which I can't do with iOS icons; I can delete any tile I chose, which I can't do with all iOS icons; and some provide real time feedback which has never been a function of iOS icons. It is a different mobile experience that is, in some ways, better than iOS and, in some ways, worse. Among the main reasons it hasn't been selling is a dearth of app store software, when compared to both iOS and Android. Not to mention that the iOS/Android aesthetic has become so ubiquitous it has become difficult to get people to "think different", even when different could be better. My how the tables have turned.
Tiles are hated!
I have a Windows Phone and I vastly prefer the Live Tiles to iOS, at least on a phone. It gives me far greater control over what's displayed on my screen, which at only 4"-5", has a premium of space. I can resize tiles, which I can't do on iOS; I can change their colour scheme, which I can't do with iOS icons; I can delete any tile I chose, which I can't do with all iOS icons; and some provide real time feedback which has never been a function of iOS icons. It is a different mobile experience that is, in some ways, better than iOS and, in some ways, worse. Among the main reasons it hasn't been selling is a dearth of app store software, when compared to both iOS and Android. Not to mention that the iOS/Android aesthetic has become so ubiquitous it has become difficult to get people to "think different", even when different could be better. My how the tables have turned.
shock horror... AS the only company basing itself completely on microsoft software, this is not much of a surprise.
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They've been around since 1865. They run major networking operations. This one of their bigger divisions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Siemens_Networks
Irony...
You guys DO REALIZE that most of you chuckling at the purchase sound just like Steve Ballmer when the iPhone was released. Remind me again how that's worked out for him...
You guys DO REALIZE that most of you chuckling at the purchase sound just like Steve Ballmer when the iPhone was released. Remind me again how that's worked out for him...