Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft
arcticstartup.com
Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft
1–10 of 78 posts
Re: Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft
#2This will probably not happen.
I think Nokia will help Microsoft to compete with Apple in the field of smartphones, especially with custom-designed hardware and exclusive OS.
Re: Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft
#3> On this last point, they talk about leveraging a non-corporate image, like the Dudesons or Madventures, and throw “the largest events, gigs, and parties of human kind”.
Well that sounds really sustainable.
Re: Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft
#4> Corporate Culture Reboot to 2002
Wow, that would be very useful. Should we reboot Blackberry to it's 2008 culture, Microsoft to 1996, Yahoo to 1999?
Re: Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft
#5"Android and Linux products" - please, no!
Re: Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft
#6The name is a bit of a pun: it's a form of the Finnish verb 'nokittaa', which means 'to raise [the bet]'.
Re: Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft
#7It'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.
Re: Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft
#8Why? Those two are a pretty good match.
Re: Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft
#9This will probably not happen. I think Nokia will help Microsoft to compete with Apple in the field of smartphones, especially with custom-designed hardware and exclusive OS.
I don't know what the new Microsoft wants. What is it that they want to sell? This is important and you can't just say "everything to everyone".
Amazon.com has a focus on retail. They sell stuff and the Kindle (including Kindle Fire) line is just a medium to get it to the customer. If FedEx and others kicked the bucket tomorrow and Amazon felt UPS was too strong as a vendor, they'd probably start their own logistics department. If they felt Comcast was too dominant, they'd probably want to do something about that as well.
Google's focus is arguably its services (which it uses to push ads). Apple is stubbornly a devices (hardware) company.
However, it is unclear what Microsoft's angle is here. Do they want to make money selling software through OEMs? It doesn't seem like they want to push prices of hardware down. They make too much money off of enterprise software to cut that arm off. Online services does not make enough money to let it completely cannibalize the software licensing cash cow yet.
I am glad I don't run Microsoft. I would be lost.
Re: Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft
#10Could 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.