Re: Microsoft buying Nokia's devices & services
 

Elop is a genius! For the flawless execution of his plan with Microsoft! The true dimwits are Nokia BoD..

Re: Microsoft buying Nokia's devices & services
 

dont blame elop, he was just a messenger. It was a well planned stratergy exe-cuted by microsoft.

Re: Microsoft buying Nokia's devices & services
 

Probably the best that happened to what was left of Devices and Services. At least they have a job with MS, otherwise NOKIA would have to let them all go.

Re: Microsoft buying Nokia's devices & services
 

Its clear Nokia wanted to sell phone busines after other manufacturers went to Google (instead working together) and they did see margins are going down. That was plan A.

It failed because even MS could not by the company that day. Plan B was to trim down and see if there is busines with MS. Did not work so back to plan A.

Re: Microsoft buying Nokia's devices & services
 

The only way MS can make an impact is by extorting patent fees for obsolete and dubious "technology".

Nokia owning Jolla would probably be the 2nd quickest way to kill them (quickest would be if MS bought them). The best way Nokia can help Jolla is to license them useful technology, eg here, pureview.

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Why would you license from Nokia? You're basically licensing from Microsoft sooner than later if they have their way. And who wants to be in bed with Microsoft other than Nokia at the moment?

At this rate, Nokia had to have been bought by Microsoft. Come next year, nobody will make a Windows Phone at all. Watch. LG has already pulled out, so have others. HTC is invariably next, then Samsung once Tizen hits. The rest will go with Android, BlackBerry will fade like Palm did, and Microsoft would have been sitting there with nobody to make their phones and no handset division of their own at the moment.

Jolla has yet to produce anything. Pinning my faith on a startup is rare these days. I'll apply faith when I see more to fulfill my curiosities; I say this despite pulling for them. I like the cut of their jib.

Re: Microsoft buying Nokia's devices & services
 

Has anyone looked at This.

Newkia! :D

Re: Microsoft buying Nokia's devices & services
 

Are you sure they didn't end up with the ones who simply needed a job enough to just do what the Microsoft management wanted, not necessarily the smarted or most innovative things? After all.. Nokia didn't exactly *DO* Anything with the operating system--they just made the crappy hardware it ran on.

Just like the time they spent too much on the devices and services company Danger Inc? How did THAT turn out, by the way?

Your plan B was actually Elop's plan A, remember? I seem to recall Elop stating that there WAS no plan B, so so much for your other theory. :P

Oh yay. I'll put MY faith in a parody company.
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On second thought, one could argue that that's what Nokia has been all along. Buh!

Re: Microsoft buying Nokia's devices & services
 

The gory details:

http://allthingsd.com/20130904/from-...okia-purchase/