Nokia acquired by Microsoft • Hacker News Board

Re: Nokia acquired by Microsoft

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Post by dvmmh » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 9:15 PM UTC

Moto7451 wrote: post #156

blinkingled wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With every passing day Windows is becoming more and more irrelevant - iPads, Chromebooks, non-Windows SmartPhones/Tablets etc. are really the future of consumer computing. So it isn't as far fetched as it was few years ago that OEMs will successfully back Ubuntu/Fedora/Android/ChromeOS and give consumers a laptop that can do everything Windows does for them today. The only holdouts would be power users that rely on W…

This is true but it's not going to happen that quickly. Traditional computers are still where "serious" work like homework is done. In my experience anyone who does more than spend time looking up recipes and checking out Facebook considers their phone to be too limited for "real" work. Some people might be happy with a bluetooth keyboard and a tablet but clearly the billions of dollars in sales of traditional PC har…

It'll happen very quickly. Soon your phone will be dockable and you will be able to use a full sized keyboard/mouse/monitor.

Re: Nokia acquired by Microsoft

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Post by zem » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 10:59 PM UTC

buster wrote: post #304

DominikR wrote: post #296

To me, this is borderline criminal behaviour and shows once more that Microsoft is incapable of playing fair. Installing a trojan horse as Nokias CEO, who then proceeds to destroy any value left in that company so that Microsoft can pick it up for a cheap price. I'd be amazed if Elop is promoted to MS's CEO position for such deceitful behaviour

I think the exact same thing... - get ex MS employee to be Nokia CEO - fire lots of Nokia employees - run the company down - buy Nokia, hire ex MS employee to run that part It's a shame, i never had a Nokia, but the featurephones atleast have been decent hardware and quality. They haven't been marketleader for nothing.. Oh, and by the way, the next step will be: - buy all Nokia patents (if they haven't as well) - sue…

their dumbphones were superb too. the nokia 1100 is probably the most usable phone i've ever had, in terms of being a phone (voice calls and sms). comfortable to hold, comfortable buttons, nigh indestructible, and an insanely long battery life.

Re: Nokia acquired by Microsoft

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Post by AliaksandrH » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 6:06 PM UTC

I feel like there are fundamental problems with MSFT (or INTC)succeeding in the mobile world

After the platform wars of 90s, the industry has scars (70% of economics went to two vendors - MSFT and INTC - Wintel)and would not want any potential repeat of the history

In many ways, ARM Holdings is anti-Intel. Same way, one can claim that Android is anti-Windows model (in many respects)

I am really curious what will happen here - and who are people in U.S. who still don't own a smartphone? (still 39% of the population - http://mashable.com/2013/06/06/smartphones-61-percent/)