| However, all of us here that are familiar with the landscape and with Microsoft's history thought this was a bad idea from the beginning. And I'm not? Talk about judging someone without knowing anything about them, wow! When did I say that the Microsoft idea was a good idea? It wasn't. "And Nokia is not a startup, but a big company that should have the resources to branch out a little and test the water with an Android phone." I never said or implied Nokia was a startup either? Nokia is a big company with big problems without the resources to branch out a little and test the water with anything, and this will probably be their downfall. That was the whole point behind my previous post! That's how smart companies are doing it - they are A/B testing competing solutions. Take a look at Google - that's still working on Chrome OS, in spite of Android being a success. I'm not even sure if your talking to me now? And I get that Nokia wanted to focus on fewer products, to preserve resources, however they've gone to the extremes, throwing away years of hard work and even consumer goodwill, adopting an operating system that they don't and will never control I completely agree? at least with Android, if anything had gone wrong with the Google partnership, they could have forked it, just like Amazon did. Yeah, but they had Meego back then, and the Android platform was unproven, so tell me why they should have chosen Android over Meego again? Actually, I have a better idea, don't bother, I'm not interested in talking about "what if's" only "what now's". |