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Why would the board include such a clause? Wow. It undermines MS's Windows Phone, if Nokia fails WP fails, being its only partner. But Lumia's are slowly gainin
by iamshs 13y ago
Why would the board include such a clause? Wow. It undermines MS's Windows Phone, if Nokia fails WP fails, being its only partner. But Lumia's are slowly gaining ground, even if its 520 one and Nokia has only ramped up the line since they debuted the first one.
The snarky tone of the author is getting in the way of the message, it is obvious he is a Finn and is emotionally invested in Nokia. Please do some analysis for us, you are writing on Forbes, rather than regurgitating original article, 1) what was the share price drop, 2) How was it accomplished, 3)How the share bounced back and how was it accomplished. It would make the collusion of quid pro quo more obvious. Right now, it can be a mere coincidence too.
- apalmer 13y agoThe author really doesn't have enough information to provide that level of evidence
- camus 13y ago"Lumia's are slowly gaining ground" WP is a disaster, Nokia is dead, Ballmer is forced out, yet you still believe it is "gaining ground" ? Of course WP ramped up,from 0 ,any product can ramp up. Let's stop the whole PR, WP is a failure, it is time for anybody who invested in WP eco system to acknowledge that fact. This whole enterprise was designed to fail, because nobody wants Windows on his phone.
- cwoods 13y agoWell, atleast gaining marketshare is better than going into a death spiral of losses like Blackberry seems to be doing. From http://www.wpcentral.com/kantar-windows-phone-hitting-8-percent-europe-progress-still-slow-us http://www.wpcentral.com/kantar-windows-phone-hitting-8-perc... Kantar Worldpanel - July 2013 Windows Phone Share by country Germany: 8.8% (+2.6% YoY) GB: 9.2% (+5% YoY) France: 11% (+7.4% YoY) Italy: 7.8% (-0.5% YoY) Spain: 1.8% (+0.1% YoY) USA: 3.5% (+0.5% YoY) China: 2.4% (-2.2% YoY) Australia: 7.4% (+2.4% YoY) Mexico: 12.5% (+10.5% YoY) >The biggest and most impressive individual gains were seen in Mexico (12.5%) and France (11%) where double digit Windows Phone sales figures were finally reached.
- yulaow 13y agostill worldwide it is at 3.7%, pushing literally BILLIONS of money to try to gain some other 0.x points. They can't continue this way forever.
- debacle 13y agoI don't know about that. I'd kill for an x86 Windows phone, and we'll probably see that in the coming years.