No. Nokia and WP7 is a good match and it will see WP7 market share climb, simply because there is a level of brand loyalty to Nokia handsets. I'm quite certain that once my sister moves to a smartphone it will be a Nokia WP7 device. Because she's not interested in buying anything but Nokia. Of course they will have to offer a non-touch screen, or at least a slide out keypad variety because she hates that touchscreen shit. Only way she'll go Android is if my FSM Wondoze hating brother convinces her to ditch one evil empire and sign up to the other evil empire.
What I think, though, is that MS has really tied itself to Nokia too strongly. They were both desperate to find a survival strategy in the smartphone market, so they cut a deal. But it's going to leave other handset makers feeling rather sour towards MS. They won't promote WP7 with quite the same enthusiasm as they will Android. And before you say "Motorola", the situation is different there. Android is already established as a strong platform across all the handset makers, and they know Google is not interested in playing favourites. Google's interest is in getting the Android OS into as many hands as possible, and playing favourites with their Motorola acqusition is not the way to do it. Also Google has had its own handset in the past and still given the 3rd parties their due.
So WP7 is assured a decent market share with Nokia, I think. But Android is set to dominate unless Google has a brain explosion. It's Google's game to lose at this point.
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