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he was just trying to be funny. then because you NATURALLY assumed that you were smarter than him you decided to educate him! finally, i think it is not possib
by zackattack 16y ago
he was just trying to be funny. then because you NATURALLY assumed that you were smarter than him you decided to educate him!
finally, i think it is not possible to make a very good argument that nokia was not a direct competitor of microsoft.
peace
- m0nastic 16y agoI don't assume that I'm smarter than anybody. I also don't assume that people on here are just trying to be funny (recent influx of Reddit'isms aside), hence me trying to point out instances where Microsoft wouldn't be holding a Non-Compete against Elop. In what market are Microsoft and Nokia direct competitors? They had a partnership with Nokia for Symbian (Microsoft was developing Silverlight and allegedly a version of Office, although I don't know if either really existed). Nokia's competitors are hardware phone manufacturers, which Microsoft isn't. You might argue that they are "indirect competitors" because Microsoft makes a smartphone operating system, and Nokia uses smartphone operating systems made by someone besides Microsoft. This ignores the fact that Microsoft's customers are phone makers, and Nokia's customers are consumers.
- zackattack 16y agoSteve Ballmer's argument against Iphone = not a business phone Nokia makes business phones