Did Microsoft just kill Nokia?

[anon(5335877)]

My perception of Nokia has remained the same throughout the years. There is absolutely nothing special about Nokia and I don't see any reason why we should care if Nokia thrives or goes bankrupt either way. (Nobody is crying for Kodak or RIM. A corporation is a corporation is just another corporation.)

They know how to make great cameras, their phones usually have great build quality, excellent reception, superb call quality, and great support. Plus, I really like their designs.

 

[cckgz4]

Sincere question. Nokia is bleeding cash. They need to make money now, not in 12-18 months. No one in their right mind would buy a WP7 phone at this point, knowing WP8 is on the horizon and won't come to their WP7 phone, so 800 and 900 sales, whatever they were, are going to grind to a halt. Nokia is losing ground in the low-end feature phone market, so they can't count on that to maintain liquidity.
I think WP8 is a definite improvement in a vacum, but in the context of Nokia on life-support, it's a disaster. And it's a kick in the junk for existing users.
So is Microsoft willing to keep funneling cash into Nokia for the foreseeable future, or is the WP8 timetable quicker than we're expecting?

Unless the general customer has turned into a tech enthusiast..........no. According to you and N8ter, people are still clueless as to what WP7 is anyhow so why would they be upset about not getting an update?

 

[cckgz4]

That's like saying Blackberry killed their 9900 Bold userbase because it's not seeing Blackberry 10 or Android killed their possible Vivid/majority LG/quite a few batch of Sony/and a whole lot of low end Samsung customers by releasing 4.0 so fast before everyone could catch up and sticking the knife in even FURTHER with Jelly Bean lurking.