hunter_alien said:
theprof00 said:
hunter_alien said:
theprof00 said:
hunter_alien said:
And they are giving away free Lumias for At&T customers :)) My god, how could Nokia fall so hard? Why not go Android, like everyone else did, and save themselves? No, they went WP7, and now they are drowning in their worst decision ever. Dont get me wrong, Im not bashing the OS, its good, its slick, and its fast, but it will never have the marketshare of Android or iOS... |
Supposedly, they were paid a very hefty amount of money to go WP7.
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Yeah, accept 250million$ and die? Seriously, thats not a good enough reason. Even if MS pays that ammount for the next 3 quarters, its still not worth to destroy the biggest mobile phone manufacturer in the world. At one point they had well over 50% marketshare of ALL the mobile phones in the world. Now they have 23%, and they are sinking like a rock. Samsung an Apple are destroying them in the smartphone segment and soon they will be on par with the likes of Motorola, HTC, Sony and other small players. The feature phone segment is shrinkg every year, and by 2014 it will be less then 10% of the overal market. Nokia is dead if they remain WP7.
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It's going to be over a billion. Nokia says in the several billions over the course of several years.
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Yeah, thats good untill Nokia becomes so small that MS realises that they are pretty much wasting money. Do you have any info on how many units Nokia has to ship to get that payment? I doubt that MS will be funding it after it fails to break into the phone market. To be honest Nokia is a dinosaur. Samsung is pushing out phone after phone and the crowds are eating it up. The R&D process of Nokia is disastrous, they made such a fuss about the Lumia series, yet they barely managed to launch it in the US after sveral months that it was available elsewhere. I never understood what takes them so much. How can a company as small as HTC have almost day one worldwide releases and Nokia strugles to get out some models in the US months after they launched it in the EU or Asia
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Msft stopped supporting toshiba's hddvd bid, I'm sure that they will stop supporting Nokia soon as well. Mabey google will be nice and buy some patents or whatever
