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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
Jane, you ignorant slut. I see that you are confused--you clearly gave that impression immediately with your opening. Given your profoundly confused state, I can now understand how you might make the argument you made, and overlook the other obvious possibility you posed: When you blend those two same cars, it might be for the purpose of having an excellent engine in an excellent chassis, but through the miracle of Microsoft's and Nokia's amazing choices over the last few years, we could easily end up with the unimpressive, unwanted engine and a chassis that in fact might still fall apart--and worse, it might even be a throwback to big, clunky chassis that only your grandfather might appreciate, complete with fins, circular brake lights and a dark cloud that follows it everywhere because it's not nearly as energy efficient and innovative an engine and chassis as everyone else, who has gone on and evolved the whole market instead of playing catch-up like Microsoft+Nokia.

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Reality check. MS rules the PC world. We may dislike it as much as we want, they still rule. Nokia still rules the mobile market, they sell more phones than anyone else. Nokia and MS is the two most influential companies in PC/mobile. Now they join forces for a new mobile ecosystem and devices and OS. It is not like they will fail because some fanboy nobrain zealots wants them to, or dislike them or hope or pray or whatever.

They will fail if they fail to make good devices and fail to make a good ecosystem, they will succeed if the achieve making good devices and ecosystem. It is that simple. Judging by the state of iOS and Android, MS+Nokia have to make really really piss poor devices and ecosystem to fail. They won't. Already there are 18000 apps, half a year before any Nokia-WP7 is out, they have mail, navigation, search, everything, it is "just" a matter of putting the pieces together.

People generally don't care what OS their phones are running, but they know that Nokia will be totally renewed very soon, obviously they hesitate purchasing a Nokia now. People now that a real Windows phone will be a Nokia, obviously they hesitate purchasing a Samsung or HTC, and both of them have better Android devices in any case.