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I’ve heard that thanks to patents and stuff they already makes loads of money out of mobile as it is!
by rusk 5y ago
I’ve heard that thanks to patents and stuff they already makes loads of money out of mobile as it is!
- nikanj 5y agoI wonder if the Nokia phone division sale included the NGage patent portfolio
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- mnd999 5y agoNokia kept all their patents.
- adventured 5y agoFor anyone curious about that: "Nokia will retain its patent portfolio and will grant Microsoft a 10-year license to its patents at the time of the closing. Microsoft will grant Nokia reciprocal rights to use Microsoft patents in its HERE services. In addition, Nokia will grant Microsoft an option to extend this mutual patent agreement in perpetuity." https://news.microsoft.com/2013/09/03/microsoft-to-acquire-nokias-devices-services-business-license-nokias-patents-and-mapping-services/ https://news.microsoft.com/2013/09/03/microsoft-to-acquire-n...
- obert 5y agothey make money but they lack control, e.g. MS can't decide how software/apps are distributed, what is trusted and what not, how apps are glued together, that's a huge miss, plus the 30% cut Apple and Google apply to payments, MS is missing out on a lot of money, and MS stores pale in comparison. Not that I support this model of distributing software, I prefer the old desktop model of downloading from internet, but don't think MS is making much money just because of patents.
- rusk 5y agoIs there some particular cultural reason why MS have been so bad at the whole walled Garden thing? I’m thinking back as far as MSN
- kaesar14 5y agoI'm not sure about internal cultural reasons why but it seems like Microsoft just sucks at user experience for the most part, which is the key to the walled garden approach to me. I've never used a Microsoft product (other than mayyyybe the Xbox 360?) and thought, wow, this product is awesome and I'd never willingly switch to something else. You know, that feeling you get when you use something like an iPhone or Google products in the 2000s/early 2010s?
- obert 5y agowell actually MS knows how to create a walled garden, but just enterprise gardens. They fail at consumer gardens because the leadership doesn’t see money there and are quite shortsighted at seeing it too. Eg see how they lost ads, search, browser, mobile. They’re in games because of Windows and later Azure, so, again they look at it through enterprise glasses.
- will4274 5y agoLess so than they used to. These were mostly 90s patents and a lot of them expired in the past five years.