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Nokia being Microsoft's puppet is not necessarily bad. Apple was NeXT's puppet, and this worked incredibly well. Perhaps this case will indeed lead to failure,
by maxharris 16y ago
Nokia being Microsoft's puppet is not necessarily bad. Apple was NeXT's puppet, and this worked incredibly well.
Perhaps this case will indeed lead to failure, but to show that, you have to point to some specific problem (and there seem to be many) with Microsoft and/or Nokia other than the fact that they are closely tied now.
- beagle3 16y agoApple paid NeXT to take them over, and got their CEO installed in place of Apple's. A guy called Steve Jobs, you might have heard of him. NeXT knew what they were doing (hardware, software)-wise, and Apple at that point in time didn't. Whereas Microsoft have no idea how to phones (Kin, anyone?); the jury is still out on the phone software but it doesn't look good (iOS and Android are mopping the floor with WP7). And if Ballmer is installed as CEO of Nokia, I'm going to short it.