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disolitude said:

This thread is fucking hilarious. Turkish, you have no concept of business and market trends. Just think back to 2011. Samsung was about to release its low end androids that have been killing Nokias low end for a few years now.

In terms of business it made 100% perfect sense to go with windows phone, even over android. Here is why:

Windows phone requires very little R&D in terms of investment in the platform. Android requires its own dev cost and Symbian even more so.

You know what was nokia's yearly R&D cost for supporting symbian? $10.4 billion dollars
You know what was nokias R&D cost supporting windows phone? $2.4 billion

Smartphones needed to sell to make back 10.4 billion dollars? - 50 million phones (nokias smartphone price was around $200 per phone for the last few years)

Smartphones needed to sell to make Windows phone profitable? - 12 million phones

+ 500 million cash infusion every quarter.


That^^

Seriously this is another Microsoft hate post from Turkish... He has not clue of what is going on. Microsoft actually SAVED Nokia and it was kind of expected they would eventually aquired them.

It is a good news for both MS and Nokia and I hope Microsoft is going to capitalize on that aquisition.