I think that people are taking this the wrong way. The first mistake is in assuming that this deal was totally mutual. Guarantee that it wasn't. Nokia's *BEEN* falling, thanks to screwups (sabotage?) by the MS flunkie at the helm. Now the BORG have showed up with a buttload of cash to assimilate nokia (since its been somewhat weakened) -- the intention here is to put their MSFLUNKO OS on as many phones as they can, and they picked NOKIA because it is the world's largest cellphone hardware manufacturer. NO OTHER REASON.
THIS IS A HOSTILE MOVE by ms, and IT IS GOING TO WORK. Nokia is currently #2 in global smartphone market share. This MS deal is going to push them lower (already has, and there's going to be a DRAMATIC CRASH at the moment the switch is officially thrown) -- it will then continue to fall for a while until it levels out at probably 10%.... which is a lot bigger than they have now, so you could call that a SUCCESS for MS.
What this is REALLY going to do, is push GOOGLE over 50% globally. I think GOOGLE is already there in the US (and remember, talking about market share, not current ownership).... and the REAL COOL thing about this is that finally a LINUX-based platform will have a MAJORITY position in this market.... which actually has some REALLY fancy side-effects.... specifically, SMARTPHONE SALES HAVE EXCEEDED PC SALES! Very soon, OVERALL shipments of Linux will EXCEED overall shipments of MS.
And that is a GREAT thing.
THIS IS A HOSTILE MOVE by ms, and IT IS GOING TO WORK. Nokia is currently #2 in global smartphone market share. This MS deal is going to push them lower (already has, and there's going to be a DRAMATIC CRASH at the moment the switch is officially thrown) -- it will then continue to fall for a while until it levels out at probably 10%.... which is a lot bigger than they have now, so you could call that a SUCCESS for MS.
What this is REALLY going to do, is push GOOGLE over 50% globally. I think GOOGLE is already there in the US (and remember, talking about market share, not current ownership).... and the REAL COOL thing about this is that finally a LINUX-based platform will have a MAJORITY position in this market.... which actually has some REALLY fancy side-effects.... specifically, SMARTPHONE SALES HAVE EXCEEDED PC SALES! Very soon, OVERALL shipments of Linux will EXCEED overall shipments of MS.
And that is a GREAT thing.
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