Am neither a Nokia fan nor a critic; but a mere lover of better consumer devices and a believer of "socialistic capitalism" (I mean, a system with little or no monopoloy of one single company on any genre of gadget/product). Yes, I am an absoutely normal consumer willing to try/buy/enjoy the best gadget available around. Hence, I am bored about the excessive coverage on the Nokia-MS deal, where ever you go... My office coffee dock, my tweeps, my friends and everyone aggressively talk abt it. Yah! probably you are right, I am bothered bcos my collegues, friends, and everyone in Finland are more concerned abt Nokia's strategic shift/alliance than the obviously visible sling holding my right hand together after a small skiing accident. :-)
Let me be a bit more realistic. IMHO, consumers do not buy devices because its a symbian, palm, iOS etc. They buy a Nokia N97, or Samsung Galaxy, a SonyEricsson or an iPhone 4! For e.g. I have android (Among others) in 4 different devices but I prefer one device over others and I just love it! I did think that the model I like was simply the best feeling you could get among those I've tried.
Now, coming to the huge bash against the Nokia-MS strategic alliance. More often than not, among the people/online magazines I follow, its the emotions that speaks and seldom the facts. Facts, often twisted to justify their feelings! And, IMHO it seems Nokia (+MS) has got bad publicity from its own fanclub than by their opponents.
Many (if not all) top gadget/smartphone/mobilephone reviewers have a quarter or two ago praised WP7 much. What MS probably lacked then was a strategic alliance with a vendor and what Nokia wanted badly was better a cost effective R&D and a fast to market OS that could effectively challenge Android/iOS etc. Meego/Symbain not being a choice, I do think this alliance have greater probabability to help/rescue Nokia or better still, an absolutely symbiotic WIN-WIN for both MS and Nokia. So, clearly, both the companies seem to benefit from the tie up. And being a gadget lover and the consumer that I'm, I am thrilled! Whats probably relevant are, first, how fast Nokia brings their first WP7 model and second, how quickly Nokia-MS bring their fellow developers onboard. Again, going by the reviews (warning: i have never tried a WP7 as yet), there is much to look towards the WP7 Market place as well and I am eagerly looking for it!
May the best business model succeed!!! Amen!
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Your writing is annoying. Using words like bcos & abt lost me while I was reading this article.
A piece of good advise is don't write like you'd write on Twitter.
Thank you and it's a very good point; didn't realise it then. I will take care in future.
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