>That is extremely unlikely. Nokia with Symbian was a Unix shop. They purged all of them for Windows or they just left. It was extremely painful. And Nokia was

>That is extremely unlikely. Nokia with Symbian was a Unix shop. They purged all of them for Windows or they just left. It was extremely painful. And Nokia was too busy with the infighting among the different Symbian groups(which didn't even share source code!) for almost 4 years to actually develop a coherent answer to the iPhone. Microsoft is paying Nokia a billion dollars a year to tide over difficult times, Elop asked Google for a similar deal to switch to Android instead and Google told them to take a hike. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_24/b4232056703101.htm http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_24/b42320567... >I said it when the MS deal was known and I repeat it today. In all Microsoft partnerships Microsoft always wins, partners are f*cked. Just because you repeat something doesn't make it true. Just read up on the history and early days of Compaq and Dell, to take just two examples out of very many that have profited in partnership with Microsoft. Nitpicking on a couple of examples doesn't help your case. For example, Apple used Read it Later's open source code in Safari, but then banned the app from the App Store for not paying the 30% toll on subscriptions! >That was the idea from (Nokia)investors from day 1, most of them are American, they want Nokia in Silicon Valley. Any references, or is that just idle speculation?