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AussieGecko on 12 February 2011
MDMAniac said:


Again. One is the OS which was basically EOL'ed and has no future and it just outsolded the newest one which has huge marketing push, full support from all kind of the vendors, and ads left and right.

How about XBOX outselling 360? LOL, I don't remember even PS3 being benid PS2 in its first quarter, or was it?


You have very strange analogies. Again the Xbox has stopped being sold thus impossible. Use a realistic analogy and you might get your point across.



 

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AussieGecko on 12 February 2011
Booh! said:

Only -13.14% on the stock market; pretty good, i must say, Palm went out of business for its deal with MS :D

 

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:NOK

If I had shares in Nokia I will sell them too. MS seems to be dominating the relationship. MS will profit from this a lot more than Nokia imo.



 

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heruamon on 12 February 2011
Booh! said:
disolitude said:
Booh! said:

Only -13.14% on the stock market; pretty good, i must say, Palm went out of business for its deal with MS :D

Funny but not really true. Palm was bought by HP and de-branded. Never went out of business.

And if they didn't do this, they would have went out of business because of this -

http://www.wpcentral.com/palm-finished-windows-mobile

They stopped using WM in 2008 and 2009 was way too late to introduce a new single handset OS and expect relevant marketshare. WebOs is great, and hopefully HP is able to move it forward with Palm Pre...

As far as Nokia, it may be a good time to buy their shares this year when it reaches its low point. After restructuring in 2012 their stock should bounce back.

Hahaha, I know, I just emphasized it a little bit. However they now have to ditch one of their operating systems and it seems that it will be Symbian (s60, perhaps s40 will survive).

Are you one of those symbian developers who's going to lose his daily bread...lol.



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AussieGecko on 12 February 2011
famousringo said:

This is a huge coup for MS. They bagged themselves the world's biggest mobile OEM for roughly zero dollars (presumably Nokia will pay MS for the privilege!), and eliminated two competing smartphone platforms at a stroke. I'm sure this is why Nokia's board brought Elop in to begin with, and it seems like an act of desperation on their part.

Nokia's value is going to be heavily damaged by this. Many of their "smartphones" were basically being used as feature phones, and I think they can hold on to a lot of those customers, but a lot of the power users are going to feel betrayed. Imagine your PC platform of choice being completely wiped out, and the next time you buy a computer you're going to have to replace all your software and figure out how to migrate your data over. Those power users are the people who buy the apps and really drive the ecosystem.

The good news is that there's still a lot of smartphone growth to be had in the 75% or so of mobile phone users who don't have a smartphone yet. Nobody has a better claim to those future smartphone customers than Nokia.


what is with the analogies... they are purely wrong. The Nokia store is being integrated into the Microsoft marketplace... as it says in the response article



 

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Booh! on 13 February 2011
heruamon said:
Booh! said:
disolitude said:
Booh! said:

Only -13.14% on the stock market; pretty good, i must say, Palm went out of business for its deal with MS :D

Funny but not really true. Palm was bought by HP and de-branded. Never went out of business.

And if they didn't do this, they would have went out of business because of this -

http://www.wpcentral.com/palm-finished-windows-mobile

They stopped using WM in 2008 and 2009 was way too late to introduce a new single handset OS and expect relevant marketshare. WebOs is great, and hopefully HP is able to move it forward with Palm Pre...

As far as Nokia, it may be a good time to buy their shares this year when it reaches its low point. After restructuring in 2012 their stock should bounce back.

Hahaha, I know, I just emphasized it a little bit. However they now have to ditch one of their operating systems and it seems that it will be Symbian (s60, perhaps s40 will survive).

Are you one of those symbian developers who's going to lose his daily bread...lol.


Luckly enough, no, but I'm concerned about the future of the Qt platform.

http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/02/12/what-is-the-future-of-qt/?mobile

http://qt.nokia.com/qt-in-use



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heruamon on 13 February 2011
Booh! said:
heruamon said:
Booh! said:
disolitude said:
Booh! said:

Only -13.14% on the stock market; pretty good, i must say, Palm went out of business for its deal with MS :D

Funny but not really true. Palm was bought by HP and de-branded. Never went out of business.

And if they didn't do this, they would have went out of business because of this -

http://www.wpcentral.com/palm-finished-windows-mobile

They stopped using WM in 2008 and 2009 was way too late to introduce a new single handset OS and expect relevant marketshare. WebOs is great, and hopefully HP is able to move it forward with Palm Pre...

As far as Nokia, it may be a good time to buy their shares this year when it reaches its low point. After restructuring in 2012 their stock should bounce back.

Hahaha, I know, I just emphasized it a little bit. However they now have to ditch one of their operating systems and it seems that it will be Symbian (s60, perhaps s40 will survive).

Are you one of those symbian developers who's going to lose his daily bread...lol.


Luckly enough, no, but I'm concerned about the future of the Qt platform.

http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/02/12/what-is-the-future-of-qt/?mobile

http://qt.nokia.com/qt-in-use

 

I'm more concern about poverty and hunger in the world, as pressing issues that concern me daily, but to each his own.



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tinachan on 21 February 2011
psrock said:

Nokia makes great hardware, MS makes software. Perfect fit. Although I wish Nokia would try more than one OS. 

I think the combination of Nokia Mcrosoft will do wonders and It would be interesting to see another OS (WP7) with Nokia and how it drives the competition in the market.
Looking forward to it guys.  :)



tinachan on 24 February 2011

At Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona, developers weigh in on the planned Nokia/Microsoft Partnership giving their honest opinions on the recent news. Developers further explain what exactly the news means for them, and how it will effect their immediate and long term future.

 

Check this to see what other developers have to say:    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfWFvCJJaNs



Squilliam on 24 February 2011

This is big for Nokia too, don't forget Microsoft is licencing a lot of Nokias services out for all other WP7 phone makers. Nokia isn't just another WP7 manufacturer, effectively Microsoft has made them a partner.



Tease.

AussieGecko on 24 February 2011
Squilliam said:

This is big for Nokia too, don't forget Microsoft is licencing a lot of Nokias services out for all other WP7 phone makers. Nokia isn't just another WP7 manufacturer, effectively Microsoft has made them a partner.


correct, its like more or less the iphone using the IOS, these will be more or less microsoft phones. As close as we get.

It excites me in the same vein as an MS pc would... which they will bring out eventually you would think.



 

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