Holy sh*t. i dont wanna believe such things, certainly microsoft would gain an enormous amount, for a start microsoft knows how to use a patent portfolio, nokia has maybe the most feared amongst mobile, after all they are one of the very few to make apple back down and pay up, makes you wonder what might have been had they been hostile in 2007...
By the way, there has to be a translation error here. For this to happened (WP to capture 7% of the Chinese market in just 2 months) would mean sales of over 10 million phones per month in China - nearly 100% of all smartphones sold for those two months would have to be WP.
I think the claim will be revised to 7% of new phone sales during those 2 months were WP, not that WP has captured 7% of the smartphone market.
Table: Select Smartphone Vendor Shipments, 1Q'2012
(Millions of units)
Apple 35
Huawei 6.8
Nokia 11.9
RIM 11.1
Samsung 43
Sony 7
ZTE 4.9
Especially when you have to pay the salaries of 125 000 people...
Given that he's now hiring his fellows from Microsoft while at the same time firing most of the executives over at Nokia, that's not even a "secret" by now.
Assuming he won't get arrested for purposedly destroying Finnish/European patrimony.
Everything Nokia's BoD does right now is so blatantly destructive that someone is eventually going to get into trouble.
Cos Google own Motorola?
Ouch. Such a bucket of money would have been really useful today.At its peak in the early and mid 2000s, the company fell victim to its own hubris. It began thinking of itself as an unassailable winner of the future, as a mature company that didn’t need to invest in the next big thing. Rather than spend its resources on building a next-generation software ecosystem—an OS that depended on novel interfaces and sensors, that allowed for outside development, that offered a brilliant user experience—the company “managed down” its cash by paying huge dividends and buying back its shares. Between 2003 and 2008, while Apple launched the iPhone and Google perfected its Android strategy, Nokia spent 27 billion euros just on dividends and repurchases.
Why would Google buy a dead end like Nokia? Patents? Isn't Motorola enough?Why would the DOJ and the EU favor MS over Google as the buyer or vice versa?
Pando Daily has an interesting take on the financial situation of Nokia:
Ouch. Such a bucket of money would have been really useful today.
The memo was the right thing to do. It was just too late. It should have been sent out the day iPhone was outed.He actually thinks the burning platform memo was a good thing,
Totz, we know your opinion on that, no need to repeat it. What I didn't know was that Nokia pissed away $27B and finds itself now in dire need of cash.ToTTenTranz said:He actually thinks the burning platform memo was a good thing, he thinks Elop is doing great and the only reason Nokia is going down is because of something like bad luck, because the Lumias are great phones and they sell good in North America..