kowenicki said:
Zkuq said:
kowenicki said:
Zkuq said:
No more Nokia for me, then. Not that I've been wanting to have anything to do with them in a long time anyway, with their Windows Phone thing and all.
Mind you, Nokia had Meego, which wasn't that far from ready. And judging by the one Meego phone that came out, it's a good OS, just in some need of polishing (which would obviously have happened relatively quickly). I'd say it had a much bigger chance of becoming big, considering Windows Phone still isn't anything big. Microsoft needs to do some huge marketing for WP to grow significantly, otherwise it would have grown already.
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You are out of date. Marketshare doubling in Europe in the last 12 months to 8.3% isnt growing? This is now just under half of iOS marketshare and It will strongly compete with iOS soon enough. In emerging markets, especially South America, it is growing even quicker.
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Huh. So all the news about Windows Phone still struggling are false? Anyway, your point pretty much begs the question: Why sell the phone business to Microsoft now, when marketshare is getting better? If anything, doesn't times getting better mean there's less reason to resort to something like this?
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Nokia corp didnt have the time to wait for its mobile business to become proftable. MS has the time and the money. This buy out has been on the acrds for a long time and was the primary reason I and many others bought Nokia shares.
Windows phone struggling? In some markets yes, in others it is making great strides. People are hung up on being the biggest these days. Is Apple the biggest? no, does Windows need to be the biggest? no. It can be a significant presence and a good money maker without being anywhere near the biggest.
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lol he just compared windows phones to apples phones XD
