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that makes them more valuable to Microsoft ... because Microsoft would pay them handsomely to do so So why did Nokia not get a better deal from Microsoft? Th
by chalst 16y ago
that makes them more valuable to Microsoft ... because Microsoft would pay them handsomely to do so
So why did Nokia not get a better deal from Microsoft? The drop in Nokia's shares wasn't because they went for WP7, it's because they didn't get any kind of exclusivity deal.
- rst 16y agoI'm not really sure we know what kind of deal they got; a lot depends on how those "billions of dollars" of payments are structured. For instance, the maps licensing deal: does this mean that Nokia will be getting royalties (for the mapping software) on sales of other manufacturers' handsets? If so, they haven't got an exclusive, but they do have a favored position. EDIT: if it's just advertising services, on the other hand, which is all Elop explicitly mentioned, then this does look pretty raw.
- chalst 16y agoAbout details: agreed. But you'd think Nokia would say something concrete about how great the deal is, given their shareholder's mood at the moment. What's the plan? Use the billions to make a surprise dividend? Maps is the kind of thing analysts were looking at. But I understood the deal as saying that MS would have a special search interface for Nokia users that integrated with Maps, not that WP7 would syndicate the service. That would be in the category of "less that complete surrender over UI".