The Nokia Acquisition (post comments and questions here)

[JustToClarify]

So, they hired Elop to speed up the deterioration of their mobile handset business?

It's funny how you make up such accusations, yet you call me a troll for pointing out actual business reasons.



That reasonable reason is called money.

Resources are finite.

If they split their R&D and manufacturing resources, then they greatly reduce how effective they can be.

Nokia had trouble making enough units for the launch of the Lumia 900. That is with Microsoft giving them quite a bit of money.

Now take away that money MS gave them and have them split their focus. That would have been quick disaster.

Also consider that Google is not going to be a customer of Nokia's location services. Microsoft's deal with Nokia have them a cushion because they'd be getting additional revenue in other areas of business that they wanted to grow.

But if money was unlimited, then yeah, Nokia could have gone Android or gone multi-platform. Not that's not reality.

it's that they couldn't adapt the manufacturing process so quickly, they have been producing flagship Symbian phones in millions of units...or maybe it's because L900 was such a sought after device lol

 

[Reflexx]

it's that they couldn't adapt the manufacturing process so quickly, they have been producing flagship Symbian phones in millions of units...or maybe it's because L900 was such a sought after device lol

Anything other than Symbian would require a lot of work and adaptation. It's not easy and it's time consuming.

Nokia's mistake was waiting too long before they made a decision to change. If they made Android handsets 2 yrs earlier they might have been fine.

If they made WP handsets one year earlier (at launch) they might have been fine. (mainly because of the money MS exclusivity gave them)

And actually, Nokia as a company still ended up doing just fine. Well, more than fine. They're doing pretty AWESOME with this deal.

 

[Lumis90]

http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/09/04/whats-next-for-lumia-and-asha/ Sweet

 

[iamtim]

Unlike users, companies have no romantic notions towards their business. They care only about the strength of their business. Right now, Nokia is stronger than they've been in... years.

Thinking that Nokia is going to sell off all their engineering and manufacturing assets to gain that strength, only to later buy up lesser versions so that they can get back into a market which weakened their business is not only a really bad business move, it's also laughably ludicrous on its face.

It may give you warm fuzzies, but it's not going to happen.

 

[Reflexx]

So MS is planning on bringing elements of Skydrive, XBOX, and Office to Asha feature phones? Wow.

 

[smoledman]

Will the current WP Lumias receive future updates?

Stop trolling.

 

[Reflexx]

Stop trolling.

Why do you think he was trolling?

He layer posted a link that answered the question: stating that there will be continued support.

 

[teckris]

Will the current WP Lumias receive future updates?

No they wont get updates. they will later run on Android..

 

[squire777]

Shame that some people won't buy Lumia phones in the future just because they won't have "Nokia" written on them. I thought it was only Apple fans that had such a strong preference for style over substance.

It's going to be the same teams designing and engineering the phones so the end product will be similar.

 

[teckris]

Shame that some people won't buy Lumia phones in the future just because they won't have "Nokia" written on them. I thought it was only Apple fans that had such a strong preference for style over substance.

It's going to be the same teams designing and engineering the phones so the end product will be similar.

Who said not going to buy? all say they will miss the Nokia Brand...

 

[DexterG]

If Elop has taken the WP route just to gain CEO position in MS, Isn't that selfish?

 

[seelani]

So over on the Nokia conversations blog, turns out the Nokia/Lumia branding might not be used for future windows phones for sake of unity. Are they going to revive the Zune (omg *squeals like a little girl*) ? Or could using a dead products branding be a bad idea? Come on guys lets look the future, what do you guys think is gonna happen to the brand name?

 

[christos michalopoulos]

Good bye Nokia. Good bye windows phones.

 

[inteller]

don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.

 

[inteller]

So over on the Nokia conversations blog, turns out the Nokia/Lumia branding might not be used for future windows phones for sake of unity. Are they going to revive the Zune (omg *squeals like a little girl*) ? Or could using a dead products branding be a bad idea? Come on guys lets look the future, what do you guys think is gonna happen to the brand name?

They are going to call the smartphones Zune and the Ashas KIN....it will be a resounding success LOL.

 

[VinceGio]

If Elop has taken the WP route just to gain CEO position in MS, Isn't that selfish?

I was thinking about that too, lol.

 

[squire777]

Who said not going to buy? all say they will miss the Nokia Brand...

You must have missed the endless comments on the main page and posts here about people abandoning WP now that MS acquired Nokia.

 

[zorb58]

Removing the Lumia brand would be a mistake. Microsoft might as well start form scratch with Windows Phone if they're gonna do that.

 

[Reflexx]

If Elop has taken the WP route just to gain CEO position in MS, Isn't that selfish?

And the entire board of directors for Nokia was in on the selfish conspiracy too?

 

[seelani]

You must have missed the endless comments on the main page and posts here about people abandoning WP now that MS acquired Nokia.

Nokia makes Windows Phones a software product of Microsoft. It doesn't make sense to give up on Windows Phones now that Nokia has been bought in part by Microsoft. Why is it so easy to see the negative rather than the positive? Most of us purchased the phones based on excellent hardware by Nokia and a young and growing Windows Phone OS. Unification should make things better.