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Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft

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Re: Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft

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It's really weird how people have started to anthropomorphize these corporations and their products...why do this? If you could raise billions you could start a new endeavor? Nokia isn't an old friend of yours. There's nothing to "save". Raise your billions and hire some of their designers if you like the work that they do.

> There's nothing to "save".

To be fair, there's a lot of intellectual property at stake.

Re: Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft

#12

It's really weird how people have started to anthropomorphize these corporations and their products...why do this? If you could raise billions you could start a new endeavor? Nokia isn't an old friend of yours. There's nothing to "save". Raise your billions and hire some of their designers if you like the work that they do.

Well if it worked that way someone already would have done that wouldn't they?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwill_(accounting)

Re: Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft

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Probably not this proposal, but there are a couple scenarios that could lead to Nokia being a takeover target:

1. Microsoft's activist shareholders tanking the deal, perhaps by pointing out that buying Nokia's factories and the whole legacy handset business including Series 30 and Asha is pretty crazy.

2. Nokia's board concluding that, now that they are rid of Elop, could reboot Nokia themselves: spin Jolla back in, and start selling Sailfish and Android smartphones.

Re: Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft

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post #10

Could work but I think they should remember this isn't an OS thing but an app thing. BlackBerry and Nokia are still producing very good phones. But they failed to jump the app train. Blackberry may survive since the new OS supports Android apps. Nokia should work on this as well. There are rumors that Nokia is still working on an Android Lumia.

Nokia won't be able to use the Lumia brand after the Microsoft deal is finalized. And they won't have their phone manufacturing department.

So we can safely say and Android Lumia won't happen.

Re: Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft

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post #10

Could work but I think they should remember this isn't an OS thing but an app thing. BlackBerry and Nokia are still producing very good phones. But they failed to jump the app train. Blackberry may survive since the new OS supports Android apps. Nokia should work on this as well. There are rumors that Nokia is still working on an Android Lumia.

Nokia won't be able to use the Lumia brand after the Microsoft deal is finalized. And they won't have their phone manufacturing department. So we can safely say and Android Lumia won't happen.

True, but rumors are that they were testing Android on the Lumia series.

But ofcourse rumors are just that: rumors ;)

Re: Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft

#16

It's really weird how people have started to anthropomorphize these corporations and their products...why do this? If you could raise billions you could start a new endeavor? Nokia isn't an old friend of yours. There's nothing to "save". Raise your billions and hire some of their designers if you like the work that they do.

Nokia's brand premium is worth quite a lot to some people, representing (at the very least) a quicker path to making money since you technically don't need to educate everybody about a new brand.

Re: Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft

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post #10

Could work but I think they should remember this isn't an OS thing but an app thing. BlackBerry and Nokia are still producing very good phones. But they failed to jump the app train. Blackberry may survive since the new OS supports Android apps. Nokia should work on this as well. There are rumors that Nokia is still working on an Android Lumia.

Those android prototypes are meant to "scare" Microsoft nothing more.

Re: Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft

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post #13

Probably not this proposal, but there are a couple scenarios that could lead to Nokia being a takeover target: 1. Microsoft's activist shareholders tanking the deal, perhaps by pointing out that buying Nokia's factories and the whole legacy handset business including Series 30 and Asha is pretty crazy. 2. Nokia's board concluding that, now that they are rid of Elop, could reboot Nokia themselves: spin Jolla back in,…

Nokia doesn't have money any more to develop Android phones on their own. They don't even have money to continue with WP strategy on their own. Elop spent billions of Nokia's money to boot Windows Phone and restructure the operation as a Microsoft division. It was 'all in' with Nokia's money.
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