Wow - I just spent what seems like an hour (while
multitasking, anyhow)
reading not only the blog but every
single comment. In the forum there were
some clearly
knowledgeable people.
So anyhow, two theories have emerged
in my mind...
1.) Microsoft seduced the Nokia board, telling them
anything they wanted to hear to win their hearts and minds.
Microsoft had one
goal - to win. If Nokia could pull off
success with the Windows phone, that
would have been fine
with Microsoft. If they couldn't, Microsoft would at least
have taken them out. One down, one to go - Android.
In this scenario
with Nokia, I see absolutely callus,
cold-blooded, ruthless, even Machiavellian
strategy at work.
Nokia didn't work out, as far as the Windows phone
goes,
and it's not going to, at least in the short term - soon
enough to save
Nokia. So I see this same Microsoft strategy
team reading a blog like Tom's and
laughing at how they
destroyed Nokia - at what a chump Nokia was, how they took
the bait, at how board at Nokia must be sweating now, at how
they must wake up
in the middle of the night in a cold
sweat...
2.) One of the
commenters mentioned some board members
with more money invested in Microsoft
stock than they had in
Nokia. This is something we have speculated on here at
Groklaw, but I think it's a stretch. There was no source to
back up such a
proposition. If it was true, I am sure there
are laws against that kind of
thing. Anyhow, this scenario
ends with the Microsoft strategy team and these
influential
Nokia board members going out for drinks together and
holding
their glasses high while they watch Nokia sinking
like the Titanic in the
sunset.
I favour my first theory. It is perfectly in keeping with
what
we know about the nature of Microsoft, and with their
strategy to kill Google
and Android. Taking out Nokia was
important too. Though now that Nokia is
crippled and
mortally wounded and doesn't look like much of a threat to
anybody, it must have looked very different back when plans
were first
laid.
Finally, here I will add a comment only vaguely related
in this
Nokia thread. I was very, very upset to read about
Microsoft's attacks on
Google Maps in the Newspicks. The
cold war Microsoft has been waging against
Android has just
heated up and gone thermonulear. They are ready now to wage
full scale war against Android/Google, and now Google has to
fight nuclear war
on two fronts at the same time, Apple and
Microsoft. I have no doubt there has
been collaboration
between those two. As PJ noted, the timing reveals it. As
soon as Apple freed themselves from Google Maps, Microsoft
moved in for the
attack.
I would just like to warn these two, Apple and Microsoft.
You
think you are so clever, but you better think twice.
Google/Android are not
alone. They have a multitude behind
them - ordinary every day people, by the
millions. You got a
taste of what these people can do when you saw how fast
SOPA
and its cousin PIPA where destroyed. We can destroy you too.
We are
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