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by bitmapbrother 3780 days ago
I always despise such theories of what would have happened had Nokia selected Android instead of Windows. You have absolutely no idea what would have happened. What we do know is that selecting a single OS from a company that had ulterior motives was a key to their demise. It's clear the Microsoft decision was a failure and anything else is just rampant speculation. It was nice, though, to see Nokia get the last laugh by selling their device division to MS for 7+ Billion dollars.

As for Nokia, well, we'll see how they do when they re-enter the smartphone market in late 2016 free of Microsoft.