kowenicki said: wick said: kowenicki said: Some of the responses in here lololol. I suggest you get up to date on marketshare movements Windows phone (basically Nokia) is gaining decent share quite quickly. Great deal for nokia handsets, great deal for microsoft and one hell of a great deal for kowenicki I made a lot of cash today. It's easy to significantly increase your market share by decent numbers when you start with such a small percentage. They'll be lucky to ever get near iOS and there's not a snowflakes chance in hell they'll ever catch Android. So? You have to be the biggest to matter?  I guess every company that isnt the biggest in their field should close and forget it then.  They will get near iOS, and that will be more than adequate. They dont need to catch Android, they are more than happy for Android to do well.... and keep paying those licnese fees to MS.  win win situation.

So?

You laughed at the attitude of previous posters in relation to Windows OS and then YOU, yes YOU brought up their growth in marketshare.

That so.

Goodbye Nokia Phones. Once such a great cellphone maker, it was synonymous with a cellphone in Poland for some time.

I had their last great effort - the Nokia N95, really good for it's time, but well, when you come up with something like N97 to counter iPhone...and so many bad smartphones and decisions afterwards. This is how you end up

Its a good deal for both companies. And congrats for those shares you got

kowenicki said: Some of the responses in here lololol. I suggest you get up to date on marketshare movements Windows phone (basically Nokia) is gaining decent share quite quickly. Great deal for nokia handsets, great deal for microsoft and one hell of a great deal for kowenicki I made a lot of cash today.

How much did you invest?

I bet I made more with Apple
Long Put back when it was close to $600.

Partialy..... they can't use the Nokia name on Smartphones only on feature phones.. MS did aquire the Lumia name..

Under the terms of Microsoft's $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's devices and services division, the "Asha" and "Lumia" trademarks will transfer to Redmond, but the "Nokia" mark will remain property of the Finnish company, and may only be used on featurephones under a 10-year license agreement. That means any future Windows Phones built by the newest division of Microsoft will be Microsoft-branded — and that Nokia has said its goodbyes to a smartphone market it once helped to create.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/3/4688888/there-will-never-be-another-nokia-smartphone

they did not buy the patents. They licensed them afaik

So will Elop be the new CEO of Microsoft now that he succeeded in his job as a trojan horse at Nokia?

Go in, gut company, sell to the old employer for dirt cheap, job done.

Should be illegal.

+1 i still wonder why they haven't bought Sega yet

Thats exactly what it means.

Sega is working more closely with Nintendo these days. The demands of next gen will demand quite a bit of investment and Nintendo is the perfect console to support.