HeyCori
Mod Emeritus
How does it hurt Nokia to use google services alongside their own? How does it put them in a worse situation than they currently find themselves in? Oh right, it doesn't.
That Navteq purchase in 2007 was a 8 billion dollar deal. You don't willingly take second place after spending 8 billion.
If they wanted to, they could offer their competing services on the same devices, right alongside the google apps.
Never said they couldn't offer Nokia Drive on an Android phone. But one's going to be the standard (Google) and one's not (Nokia).
And google wouldn't have any issue with it.
Tell that to the OEMs that almost lost their Android license.
Or, they could go the amazon route and offer the devices sans google apps.
An Android phone without access to Android's 500K apps? You... you think that would succeed?!?!
Either way, their devices would have gotten into much more hands on the back of Android alone. Yeah they would have "sold out" in the eyes of many, but not in the eyes of the shareholders.
The thing is we're both arguing over two failed strategies. Neither what I'm saying or what you're saying was going to guarantee success for Nokia. Both strategies have their pluses and minuses. It's easy in hindsight to say that "Nokia should of done that," but almost two years ago Elop and Nokia's entire board got together and decided that it was a better longterm strategy to go with Windows Phone. And while I don't think anyone expected WP to sell this bad, they decided it was the best way to keep Nokia as Nokia.
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