Comment on Mobile Phone Brands by Market Share (2007 vs 2025)

• tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Microsoft’s interest in Nokia was being able to compete with what is now a dupopoly between Google and Apple in phones. They wanted to own a mobile platform. I am very confident that they did not want their project to flop. That being said, they’ll have had their own concerns and interests. Maybe Nokia would have done better to go down the Apple or Google path, but for Microsoft, the whole point was to get Microsoft hardware out.

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  • bufalo1973@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Microsoft wanted a platform... for Windows CE, not Nokia's MeeGo or Symbian. That was the problem. Elop destroyed Nokia to get the only the name.

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  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe sabotage isn’t the right word, but his decisions seemed to be more for Microsoft’s benefit than for Nokia’s.

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