What is left of Nokia?

You really have no clue what you're talking about, stop copy pasting what other people are posting.

There are plenty of actually informed posts in that GAF thread which proves the opposite of what you're saying.

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.

So are you gonna copy paste what those other people are posting to disprove me or are you gonna thread whine more? How ironic that you accuse me of copy pasting when you bring up other people's post that supposedly disprove me. Did Nokia sales not fall of a cliff after the transition to windows mobile? YES. Elop was shitting on his own products(Burning Platform memo) just before the transition. Was Nokia already hurting before Elops coup? YES, thanks to the explosion in  Apple and Samsung phone sales. What exactly is it that you dont understand?

Damn, you must be blind not to see how he actually saved Nokia.

To be fair,  He probably didn't pay attention to this until like a couple days ago.

Hell, he didn't even get the OP right, since Nokia isn't being sold.  Just it's handset buisness.  Nokia is actually keeping all it's profitable pieces.

There is a reason why nobody in the investment buisness believes that conspiracy theory.  Hell, if anything the leading trend of negativity on microsoft is... "Why is microsoft paying money for something they already have locked up, they're just basically buying cashflow."

Nokia's big problem was that they decided to focus on non-smartphones RIGHT before the Iphone released... basically they focused on smartphones before they got big, and then stoppd focusing on them, riiiiiight before they got huge.

Also, Elop became CEO in SEPTEMBER 2010.  So you know the whole "Downward sales/unprofitable all of a sudden" trend actually LED elop, even in your graphs.   Which for some reason places the memo at the start of 2010... and just in general... isn't accurate. 

So whoever even made that graph has their facts wrong.

They're Map buisness that is used in the majority of cellphones and cars and  They're highly profitable buisness networks and services company.

As an example, had this sale happened last financial quarter, instead of having a profit margin of 4%.  Nokia would of had a profit margin of 12%.

My Nokia stocks went up $5000 over night. Thanks M$!!!!

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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.

Ok... here's the thing... and I don't say this lightly.  You don't know what your talking about. Memo isn't a software or a platform or annything.

The Memo referred to in the OP was an internal Memo, as in a document sent to other people.   It was talking about how their current plan was flawed and leading to them losing market share.