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Financial Times: Huawei open to Nokia deal but says Windows mobile remains weak
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 19 2013 @ 12:21 AM EDT
Huawei open to Nokia deal but says Windows mobile remains weak Huawei muses on Nokia's future

From the Financial Times:

Huawei would consider buying Nokia to help it become the world’s leading smartphone maker, according to the head of the Chinese telecom group’s consumer business.

“We are considering these sorts of acquisitions; maybe the combination has some synergies but depends on the willingness of Nokia. We are open-minded,” said Richard Yu, chairman of Huawei’s consumer business group.

Mr Yu predicted that the smartphone market would consolidate to about three or four companies – and warned that Microsoft’s Windows phone platform used by Nokia as well as Huawei was “weak”. Huawei has mostly adopted Google’s Android operating system for its smartphones.

“Whether Windows Phone [will be] successful is difficult to say – it has a very small market share. [Windows Phones] are weak but still require a licence fee. That’s not good. Android is free.”

Even without acquisitions, Huawei has become the third-largest manufacturer of smartphones by volume behind Samsung and Apple, ...

From The Register:

Growing its smartphone shipments by 94 percent from Q1 2012 to Q1 2013 might not be enough to satisfy Huawei: it's reportedly floated the idea of acquiring Nokia.

According to a report in the Financial Times, the rising Chinese giant would consider buying the veteran Finnish mobile phone vendor, but isn't impressed at its reliance on the Windows Mobile platform. (...)

At the same time, Yu was critical of the “weak” Windows mobile phone platform, adding that its license fee is a significant turn-off from Huawei's point of view.

Personally, I suspect that Huawei wants Nokia strictly for its patents, and would dump Nokia's existing product line. Huawei already makes some very nice phones which compete in the high end of the market, as well as having low and mid range models. They've recently introduced what they describe as the world's thinnest smart phone. They don't have much market presence in the US, but in the rest of the world Huawei are a very big company with a well known brand name and people rate their phones quite highly.

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Great background and photos from stuckincustoms: RELEASE THE GOOGLE INTERNET BALLOONS!
Authored by: SilverWave on Wednesday, June 19 2013 @ 01:53 AM EDT
RELEASE THE GOOGLE INTERNET BALLOONS!

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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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..are we now facing die Endlösung der Fliegerfrage?
Authored by: arnt on Thursday, June 20 2013 @ 09:23 PM EDT
..are we now facing die Endlösung der Fliegerfrage?
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archi ve/2013/05/annals-of-the-security-state-more-airplane-stories/276018/
http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2013 /June/19/AOPA-demands-answers-on-aircraft-searches.aspx
http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/ 2013/May/16/Pilot-detained-searched-for-mysterious-reasons.aspx
http://www.eaa.org/news/2013/2013- 06-20_why-are-federal-agents-sto pping-GA-pilots.asp

..these GA owner pilots are the kind of Americans who are the
most law abiding, patriotic, safety aware and pro-military you
find, and most of them can afford lawyers, I mean poor people
don't fly their own aircraft, and up till now, I would have
guessed they belong to not only Mitt Romney's 53% or 47%, but
also his and Obama's 1%. A lot of USAF, USN and US Marine
combat aviators are recruited from general aviation, and now,
GA is being, "discouraged."

..how far off is then die Endlösung der Amerikanerfrage?

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