Daily Archives: 2011-02-11

Nokia + Microsoft = Fail.

This morning Nokia announced a partnership with Microsoft, and a transition to Windows Phone 7 for their high end products. Why they were incapable of learning from Microsofts many successes in the mobile space, and quality mutually beneficial relationships with partners isn’t clear. The fact that Stephen Elop (current Nokia CEO) came from Microsoft last September could be related. The reason I care is that Meego (successor to maemo) was the only mobile platform I was in any way optimistic about fulfilling the promise of “Computer in your pocket,” and it just became a second-class citizen with a limited lifespan.
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