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This isn't quite the same. Apple's platform is a closed garden. Hardware and software are bundled together and are inseparable. There can be no iPhone without i
by jbkkd 10y ago
This isn't quite the same. Apple's platform is a closed garden. Hardware and software are bundled together and are inseparable. There can be no iPhone without iOS.
Nokia didn't do that. They had Symbian, Windows Phones and Asha to name a few.
What's happening here is Nokia taking their excellent hardware for which they were known for (remember those phones you could throw at a wall?), and sticking Android on it as the operating system - just like they would do with Windows Phone.
- nine_k 10y agoI'll be very glad if Nokia ends up making very good Android phones. Lumias were quite good, too, from the hardware perspective. What is the saddest part is the loss of their mobile OS effort; it had a number of good UI ideas. BTW I wonder when some reasonably large player will try to offer an entirely (or at least significantly) different UX on top of Android's open-source core.
- cwyers 10y agoNo, they're likely just putting their name on some other OEM's Android phones.