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Nokia shares tumble after Windows Phone 7 announcement
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article published on 11 February, 2011
Following Nokia's official announcement that it will be partnering with Microsoft, shares have tumbled, reaching session lows as of writing of down 14.50 percent on 700 percent average volume.
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced this morning that Nokia smartphones would now run the Windows Phone 7 operating system, a huge move for Microsoft which instantly gains a worldwide footprint, but ... [ read the full article ]
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biglo30
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11. February 2011 @ 14:59 |
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LOL I guess people aren't too happy about that idea and don't have much fate in windows phone 7 OS.
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11. February 2011 @ 21:40 |
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LoL...if only the rest of the market worked so well; Intel's shares didn't drop at all when they bought McAfee; that has to be at least as dumb as building a WinMo7 phone.
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11. February 2011 @ 22:54 |
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i could be wrong but the only way these company survive is to make nokia the only hardware for windows, and nokia only use windows OS. my 2 cents.
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11. February 2011 @ 23:00 |
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Microsoft already has enough problems without being limited to Nokia's crummy hardware, and Nokia already has enough problems without being limited to Microsoft's crummy OS. Microsoft needs to leech off of HTC and Motorola for enough power to handle the wasteful system, and Nokia needs to leech off of Google so that they have an OS that runs OK on slower hardware.
A Nokia with WinMo7...I can't think of a worse combination...well, maybe a Nokia with iOS.
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12. February 2011 @ 13:08 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
LoL...if only the rest of the market worked so well; Intel's shares didn't drop at all when they bought McAfee; that has to be at least as dumb as building a WinMo7 phone.
It seems to me Killer that Nokia employees are just as bitter, just walking off the job in some protest. Hmm, doesn't that sound famililar these days? If you don't like something, protest.
Chance prepares the favored mind. Look up once in a while and you might learn something. - BLUEBOY
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13. February 2011 @ 05:22 |
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Nokia bought Qt and improved it a lot. It's used a fair amount in open source software (because it offers the best platform compatibility, and is extremely easy) and has some usage with commercial software.
Maybe this platform-agnosticism development style that Microsoft hates has their developers thinking this way. Honestly, I do not blame them. When you create software, you generally try to create a solution that can be useful in multiple different problems, especially so you do NOT have to rewrite the solution again.
The Windows API (and development system) has no easy way to keep your code clean and create portable, usable code (C standards out of whack, C++ standards same; no Win libraries for other platforms except Xbox). Write-once, run everywhere doesn't even exist across the Windows versions (this is the reason Microsoft made .NET). Windows bugs, incompatibily to C-standard code, and general weirdness to UNIX-based platforms makes for some big headaches.
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