Microsoft ditching the Nokia name on smartphones

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foxtail said:

whiteknight101 said:
What killed Nokia was the rise of Android, more than IPhone. When Android started to get big, Nokia could have easily jumped aboard and become the unrivalled no 1 among Android manufacturers. Problem was, they had been so huge and were still the worlds biggest handset brand, so they thought that to protect their position the best strategy would be to push their own smartphone OS.

Wasn't the bulk of Nokia's sales back then made from their simpler feature-phones and other non-smart phones anyways?  

Would it really have made a difference if they switched to Android with smart phones being a smaller portion of their sales?

Yes. The bulk of their profits and revenues, however, weren't.

The amazing thing about Symbian was that you could stick it onto a 600 MHz ARM9 processor, and 64MB RAM, and it would still run well. That allowed them to make low-cost, high-margin devices really easily.