Microsoft paid Nokia $250 million to adopt Windows Phone in Q4

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Train wreck said:

Argh_College said:

Train wreck said:
Kinda laughable that MS has to pay a carrier to adopt its platform. Nokia indicated it supposed to be receiving 'billions' from the transaction, Microsoft never learns. More wasted money.

Yeah because you know what´s best for Microsoft, thats why they have profits of bilions every quarter.

You´re my hero :3

Its pretty obivious you know nothing about business so I wont even bother replying any further.

You know even less about business if you think that its 'laughable' for Microsoft to pay for a 'carrier' to push their mobile platform.

For one, Nokia as an OEM and not a carrier.

Secondly, Nokia is providing various services for the Windows phone ecosystem, such as Nokia maps and turn by turn GPS services which is being integrated in to Bing and will be available for all Windoes phone users. These services cost money.

Lastly, Microsoft is in complete control of the Windows Phone ecosystem and makes money on the OS license, app store, search, advertising exchange... It makes absolute business sense to give the largest phone OEM in the world financial compensation in order to have them push their ecosystem. If you find this strategy laughable, then you must be laughing at Sony for a decade now since they are selling hardware at a loss in order to make money on the games.