Nokia will end up owing $650 million to Microsoft

[sergiodaly]

kowenicki said:

sergiodaly said:
not sure if got it right... but are you saying MS made a deal with Nokia "forcing" (by giving them money) them to use only the WP OS and in the end nokia will have to pay (all back and plus 650 million) to be "forced" to use only WP OS?

if that is the case... nokia is more stupid than i thought.

Yeah forcing them. They put a gun to their heads and said sign or we shoot. Good grief. 

Its a business deal. It's how it works in the grown up world of business sometimes.  They both went Ito it willingly and I'm pretty sure they both happy so far.

did you notice the "" in the forcing word? and the comment between ( ) ? i didn't find other word to explain the deal...
easy, i didn't attack your beloved company... they made a great deal, and in my opinion nokia made a bad one...
Of course there was no gun involved, just money waving in front of Nokia's eyes... and they accept it... nothing wrong about that... MS was trying to push WP OS and nokia did need the money to fund their next line of smart phones... so its a win win situation, the stupid thing is nokia owning MS 650 millions after helping them so much push WP OS...