Nokia's share prices took a dive today

[Zlejedi]

disolitude said:

Soleron said:

We've seen it time and time again in electronics, there is only room for two or three competitors in a hardware business. Samsung and Apple have #1 and #2 tied up. The rest of the market is too small to support LG, Motorola, Sony, Nokia, RIM and others, so some of them have to die.

Nokia was stupid to give up their independent decision making to MS. I don't know which choice of Android, WP7 ( and don't forget MeeGo!)  would have worked, but they got an executive handcuffed to MS and now they have no freedom to change their situation even if they could think of a solution. MS got a much better deal than Nokia did, WP7 would be dead if they didn't have them.

I think MeeGo could have worked. It was cool.

I think MeeGo could have worked in a cool, open source kind of way for a small start up company but not Nokia. Also I disagree that Nokia gave up any decision making to Microsoft. They have a partnership which to me makes a lot of sense and thats about it. If Microsoft was calling the shots you wouldn't be seeing a 41 megapixel revolutionary camera technology on a Symbian platform.

Off topic - Lumia 900 is wonderful. As someone that has had nearly dozen smartphones at my disposal in the last couple of years I find the Lumia 900 the only phone that feels as premium as the iPhone 4/4s in terms of build quality. However it  feels much more durable than the iPhone at the same time. Nokia exclusive apps are also very useful unlike Samsung, LG and HTC apps which I've seen on their phones. Even the rediculously low price aside, there really is no point for anyone interested in a Windows Phone to buy anything else for the time being. I feel sorry for the HTC Titan II...

It's also extremly expensive so it's fightning apple war - compared to this android has some high end models but also really cheap stuff opening smartphones to much broader market.

If Microsoft wants to increase marketshare they need cheap windows phones asap.