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I think that Microsoft will probably end up buying Nokia outright at some point if this slide continues, especially if Google gets serious about making it's own

I think that Microsoft will probably end up buying Nokia outright at some point if this slide continues, especially if Google gets serious about making it's own hardware via it's Motorola Mobility acquisition.

dirkdk 15y ago
No, my money is on Microsoft buying RIM/Blackberry. Those guys are gone in 3 months. After that acquisition Nokia will not be possible anymore because of anti-competition regulations.
- rbanffy 15y ago
  In the end, it will come down to which patents are more useful for Microsoft to help slow Android and Linux down. The one with the nastiest stuff will win.
rbanffy 15y ago
I think this was the plan from the start and I said so from the moment Elop was hired. note: the downvotes are so predictable on threads like this...
- cooldeal 15y ago
  >I think this was the plan from the start and I said so from the moment Elop was hired Who's plan? Care to elaborate?
  - rbanffy 15y ago
    Elop was hired from Microsoft where he was the head of the Office division. At Nokia he bet the company on the success of WP7, something every specialist in the market considered insane. Microsoft's money will not last long enough. To be sincere, I imagined the plan was to make WP7 a success with Nokia's help (after all, they know how to sell phones to telcos, if not to end users). Plan B was to acquire Nokia's patent portfolio. I never had much faith in plan A.
    - JonoW 15y ago
      Do you really think the Nokia board hired Elop without thinking about a partnership with MS?
      - rbanffy 15y ago
        It's called a "bacon and eggs partnership". Microsoft is the chicken, Nokia is the pig.
mason55 15y ago
There are already rumblings of Google selling off the Mobility hardware
- fjarlq 15y ago
  There are also rumblings that those rumblings are nothing more than rumblings... http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120413PD205.html http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120413PD205.html

dirkdk 15y ago

No, my money is on Microsoft buying RIM/Blackberry. Those guys are gone in 3 months. After that acquisition Nokia will not be possible anymore because of anti-competition regulations.

rbanffy 15y ago
In the end, it will come down to which patents are more useful for Microsoft to help slow Android and Linux down. The one with the nastiest stuff will win.

rbanffy 15y ago

I think this was the plan from the start and I said so from the moment Elop was hired. note: the downvotes are so predictable on threads like this...

cooldeal 15y ago
>I think this was the plan from the start and I said so from the moment Elop was hired Who's plan? Care to elaborate?
- rbanffy 15y ago
  Elop was hired from Microsoft where he was the head of the Office division. At Nokia he bet the company on the success of WP7, something every specialist in the market considered insane. Microsoft's money will not last long enough. To be sincere, I imagined the plan was to make WP7 a success with Nokia's help (after all, they know how to sell phones to telcos, if not to end users). Plan B was to acquire Nokia's patent portfolio. I never had much faith in plan A.
  - JonoW 15y ago
    Do you really think the Nokia board hired Elop without thinking about a partnership with MS?
    - rbanffy 15y ago
      It's called a "bacon and eggs partnership". Microsoft is the chicken, Nokia is the pig.

mason55 15y ago

There are already rumblings of Google selling off the Mobility hardware

fjarlq 15y ago
There are also rumblings that those rumblings are nothing more than rumblings... http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120413PD205.html http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120413PD205.html