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Is Nokia still a separate company?
by Priest on Mon 18th Jun 2012 04:19 UTC
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It is amazing that a company as well positioned as Nokia was could be down 60% this year in the midst of a computing revolution to move to mobile phones and tablets.

What has stopped them from building an Android phone? With their size, expertise, and patent portfolio there isn't any reason they can't be competitive.

They could have offered something like a nexus phone, they could have offered CyanogenMod on the non-pure phones instead of developing a TouchWiz from scratch since nobody seems to want to sell pure Android. They could have used some of their developers to sell applications in the app store since that is a pretty big growth area.

At the rate they are going they soon won't exist and what's left of the husk will be sold off to patent trolls and lawyers to hold back the industry.

Sometimes multimillion dollar a year CEO's aren't any better at making strategic decisions than the $10/hr employees. I'm glad I'm not a Nokia stock holder but the rest of the industry is going to suffer from this stupidity anyway.

The real reason Nokia isn't selling Android is because if Nokia were to sign a licensing agreement to sell Android phones it might hurt the future patent war Apple and Microsoft are planning to launch against Android when they buy out Nokia's portfolio in the bankruptcy sale.

You can bet the Nokia brass has a golden parachute lined up for when that happens but it's unfortunate for the lowly Nokia employee and stock holder who don't.

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