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Nokias cash reserves back in late 2010 was something like 9-10 billion US.
I think It was mize or tottentranz who put up some graphs a while back showing symbian getting more popular or something untill the fatefull burning platform memo.
Any peeps moving away from symbian at that point was due to the fact nokia ran symbian into the ground for many years whilst apple and android innovated on software, even blackberry was very solid at the time, higher competition = less sales anyway, that was inevitable.
BUT thats not including the new strategy of meego and a revamped symbian for the low end, both unified through QT for ease of porting, symbian had a massive following already and meego had a huge geek interest from maemo 5.
-if anything I thought nokia could have done something sooner with regards to maemo 6, before meego, n900 was a terrific phone, all it needed was a redesign, snapdragon processor, capacitive screen/software multitouch support, and the n8s camera module and it would have stamped its mark...took too long. (I was anticipating this phone).
Elop could having stuck with the same strategy, maybe making some US centric media focused phones with WP.
You also discounting the success of the award winning n9,..it was dead on arrival, wayyy over priced so not to sell, not advertised and only launched in limited non nokia strongholds, yet for a long time it outsold the entire WP ecosystem.e
Although I have been impressed with elops enthusiasm and savvy on stage performances, the leaked microsoft takeover talks proge that he came in with one eye on selling nokia to microsoft...thats the only way any of what he did makes sense...burning platform = "please dont buy our products we have got it all wong, come back in 6 months..chow"
Edit, also doesnt that 250 million just cancel/partly cancel out the WP tax? I was under the impression money was being exchanged each way with microsoft still earning something from it?
I think It was mize or tottentranz who put up some graphs a while back showing symbian getting more popular or something untill the fatefull burning platform memo.
Any peeps moving away from symbian at that point was due to the fact nokia ran symbian into the ground for many years whilst apple and android innovated on software, even blackberry was very solid at the time, higher competition = less sales anyway, that was inevitable.
BUT thats not including the new strategy of meego and a revamped symbian for the low end, both unified through QT for ease of porting, symbian had a massive following already and meego had a huge geek interest from maemo 5.
-if anything I thought nokia could have done something sooner with regards to maemo 6, before meego, n900 was a terrific phone, all it needed was a redesign, snapdragon processor, capacitive screen/software multitouch support, and the n8s camera module and it would have stamped its mark...took too long. (I was anticipating this phone).
Elop could having stuck with the same strategy, maybe making some US centric media focused phones with WP.
You also discounting the success of the award winning n9,..it was dead on arrival, wayyy over priced so not to sell, not advertised and only launched in limited non nokia strongholds, yet for a long time it outsold the entire WP ecosystem.e
Although I have been impressed with elops enthusiasm and savvy on stage performances, the leaked microsoft takeover talks proge that he came in with one eye on selling nokia to microsoft...thats the only way any of what he did makes sense...burning platform = "please dont buy our products we have got it all wong, come back in 6 months..chow"
Edit, also doesnt that 250 million just cancel/partly cancel out the WP tax? I was under the impression money was being exchanged each way with microsoft still earning something from it?
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