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Behind Microsoft Deal, the Specter of a Nokia Android Phone
Behind Microsoft Deal, the Specter of a Nokia Android Phone Ben Thompson deserves points for calling this one: Nokia did, in fact, have Android up and running on Lumias and might have made a move that way if Microsoft hadn’t stepped in. Now the question remains: Is Microsoft going to be that much more capable …
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The Deal That Makes No Sense – stratēchery by Ben Thompson
The Deal That Makes No Sense – stratēchery by Ben Thompson Ben Thompson – himself a Microsoft alum who worked on windows phone – furthers the earlier post from Matt Drance by calling the Nokia buy “the deal that makes no sense.” He posits a very likely theory: Nokia was either going out of business …
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Apple Outsider » Microsoft Buys Nokia for €3.79B
Apple Outsider » Microsoft Buys Nokia for €3.79B Matt Drance with an excellent rundown of the Microsoft-Nokia acquisition. The whole thing is a must-read, but there’s two particularly salient points worth highlighting. First, he points out that bad acquisitions were a hallmark of Ballmer’s tenure. No one seemed to be bringing this up in discussing …
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Unforgiven, Continued
Unforgiven, Continued Horace Deidu checks in on a phenomena he observed a while back. Any mobile phone vendor that has reported a loss in even just one quarter has never made it back to profitability. Of the 18 vendors this has been true of, 15 were acquired or merged and the remaining 3 are circling …
