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HTC was...
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 07 2012 @ 02:30 AM EDT
huge money for a while... then they naffed it up for a while... but the tripled
in size from where they were pre- android.

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Don't forget...
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 07 2012 @ 05:31 AM EDT
Actually, given the services Nokia has built over the years, they could have
leverage it to succeed with Android. Neither Samsung nor HTC have anything
similar to those services.

Additionally, Nokia could have brought Qt over to Android, and sold Qt SDK
services for Android (if they find it worthwhile, it could even be a cross
platform SDK that works with iOS and Symbian as Qt was originally intended). It
would probably beat almost any other C/C++ SDK available for Android right now.
I know a lot of C/C++ developers (specially those doing mobile games) who would
love to see something like Qt on Android. I'm sure there were other
possibilities for them to collaborate with application developers (specially
game developers) to give Nokia the advantage over other manufacturers as well.

Nokia's hardware design would have also been able to make a difference. Almost
all the Nokia speciality phones that were based on Symbian can easily be
re-implemented using Android without software limitations (not to mention
probably with significant improvements) unlike with WP7. Nokia add-on software
is almost guaranteed to be better than Samsung or HTC given Nokia's experience
and capabilities. The only thing that would probably still be lost is Meego,
since that wouldn't make much sense any more. At best they could re-implement or
port some of the ideas and software found in Meego in to Android or as add-on
applications that they could pre-install in their phones.

Pushing forward into the future, they would have needed to figure out how to
differentiate more as the other manufacturers catch up to them on Android.
However that is no different from a successful scenario for the Microsoft's
Windows Phone platform. If WP8 is successful (which many doubt it will), I'm
sure Samsung, HTC and a few other manufacturers will be competing fiercely as
well, and I doubt Nokia will have that much an advantage after spending and
abandoning so much with so little to show for using WP7.

The advantage of using Android was that it would have given Nokia a more
flexible platform that is, more adaptable to their existing services, more
suitable of their existing software solutions, and more importantly less of an
uphill battle to gain acceptance on the market. There are a lot of disadvantages
as well of course, but it would still have been significantly better than using
WP7. I can say that without reservations because I think that what Microsoft
paid Nokia is of little consequence; when compared to how much value was
destroyed in the last two years, due to the redundancies and non-applicability
of the existing capabilities at Nokia to the WP7 platform. Much of which could
have found a place if Nokia had use Android.

Now, however is too late for Nokia to do anything that will be of much
significance. Many users have lost confidence in them. Many application
developers felt disappointed for what they did to Qt and Meego (not to mention
Symbian). They have spent a lot with very little to show. Catching up to the
other manufacturers using Android would be almost exponentially harder than when
they announce the deal with Microsoft. Same with going back to Meego or Symbian.
Might as well gamble with WP8 if Microsoft can bail them out with cash or just
give up altogether. For the rest of the world, it would have been better if
Nokia didn't end up this way. But I really don't see any way out for Nokia. The
worst now are the patents. It's a problem will likely outlive Nokia until the
patents expire.

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