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	danramos	2012-05-08 , 11:28
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Originally Posted by mikecomputing

actually they may have a chance on tablet market when they release the first windows8 tablets. That way they may push nextgen wp too.

I dont like it but still its seems only way. I mean seriously the board cant be THAT stupid in strategy as it looks today?

or maybe they are....

I suspect that for the same reason that people stayed far away from Windows on the phone, they will also stay far, far away from Windows on a tablet: Nobody WANTS Windows. People have TOLERATED Windows on the desktop at the suffrage of the games and software they wanted or needed. This isn't the case with phones or tablets anymore. Microsoft is far, far behind in tablets despite trying to deliver a tablet to market for well over a decade and failing miserably every time. Why should this any different? Because they made a crippled version for tablets? Because they're putting out a trailing edge contender for specs? Because the platform is just rich with the software people want and need? I truly suspect Nokia has no chance--just like all the other Windows mobile platform has turned into so much garbage for the other manufacturers who've since abandoned the Windows platform. Nokia is looking more and more likely to stand alone on this burnt-out platform.

Originally Posted by volt

Did I ever imply anything other than Nokia lighting up their own platform? I have no love for Nokia, I just think they did a few very good things with Maemo. And other things weren't good at all.

I don't even own a N9 (but the prices are interesting nowadays), I own a Android phone. Also, I think it would have been much wiser of Nokia to embrace Android than not. Maybe the same product molds across operating systems... Might have mentioned that before A slow and less dramatic adaption to Android (and Windows 7.0 too) at an earlier point would have saved them from the disastrous 2011, I really do believe. I don't know if that would have been the most advantageous strategy, but I do think the one they chose was possibly the least advantageous.

As I wrote elsewhere, I believe Nokia has chose a really stupid path. I believe they have passed the point of no return. I believe for them to continue to exist as an independent company, it's too late to change strategy and they must make Windows 7.5 work somehow till Windows 8 comes, and they must force Windows 8 to be something good and sellable.

I believe all this means that Nokia is ****ed beyond repair unless they whip a dead Microsoft horse back into the race. And I don't see how they could possibly manage that without being Microsoft, when Microsoft hasn't managed at all while being them.

I would much have preferred to have an OS that didn't toss out programs while I was using them, but that's an entirely different discussion. I still dream of an Intel-inside i386-compatible phone running an OS with as many services as I want. With decent multicore usage, and some resources reserved for prioritized instant phone usage. This is a dream, not a hope, but at least Maemo had elements worth dreaming of.

Android is a tad behind on those things. And way ahead in most other things.

I can agree with some and disagree with some of what you've said. Ultimately, though, behind or ahead, the stock is still diving despite what you or I wanted out of Nokia. Nokia preferred to ignore us, the customers with the money, and has suffered the consequences--as it should.

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