Post date: Jun 24, 2014 4:16:42 PM
This Microsoft Nokia thing gets stranger and stranger.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/microsoft-nokia-smartphone-android-152434399.html
When Nokia adopted Windows Phone, Steve Elop went to great lengths to explain the reason why Nokia could not add enough value to an Android phone. I suppose Microsoft is now saying that they themselves cannot add enough value to Windows Phone. Either way it does not make sense. The trend was observable even back then and if anybody doesn't believe it then just scroll back to my earlier postings, not that I was saying anything different from a whole battery of industry observers. Android would have been the natural choice for Nokia to switch to and Nokia could have been eating part of Samsung's market now if the decision went that way. Further, if Nokia had adopted Android then, Nokia would be very much further along whatever business case that Microsoft is now working for itself. So at the end of the day, the original direction for Nokia not to adopt Android was a mistake and this has now been proven by none other than Microsoft itself.
Imagine a Nokia with a competitive line of Android phones. Add to that, offerings from Meego. Is this very different compared to Samsung with Bada and Tizen? And I am not even talking about the tablet line which would be another sector that Nokia could have explored with a degree of success. Somehow I don't feel particularly happy that the call I made was right all along.