Windows Phone At Bottom Of Global Smartphone Rankings. Android and Apple's iOS still dominate.

Information Week ^ | 05/19/2011 | Eric Zeman

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The partnership is old news. It is still not official but it looks like Microsoft is looking at buying Nokia outright.

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Microsoft is looking at buying Nokia outright.

Ain't gonna happen. I don't think Microsoft wants to risk losing all other phone partnerships, and later, all software partnerships with the hardware manufacturers.

But, it wouldn't be a bad idea for Microsoft to become a player in the full PC/phone experiences, which would include providing the hardware and software for everything they're involved in, a la Apple. In that case, Microsoft could easily become the first trillion dollar company.

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If Microsoft doesn’t get their market share up, they aren’t going to have to worry about their phone partners.

At least with a Nokia purchase, they know they have THE major manufacturer making Windows phones. A few years ago, I would pay extra to have a Nokia phone and many people felt the same, they have the reputation of making great hardware. World wide, Nokia still has about a 1/3 share of the smart phone market. I don’t know how loyal they are though.

I’ve read rumors that Microsoft may pay 80-100 billion dollars for Nokia. I can’t picture that being a good idea.

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An outright purchase would alienate a huge number of Nokia’s European market, and would result in a very bad deal immediately. The best Microsoft can do with Nokia is a partnership, like they already have.

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their eccosystem model, aka a sucker trap, is exactly why consumers are NOT buying the wp7 phones.

if anyone wants such a cloud closes system, they already have an iphone.

wp7 is just an iphone wanabee tied to MS products.

the suits at windows are more clueless than obama.