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To: Eric L who wrote (1220)	12/17/2011 10:02:33 AM
From: sylvester80	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1647

The main point of the message was not the stock PPS but the horrible performance of Nokia's CEO. IMO, the fact that HTC and Samsung can built WP7 and Android phones (and for Samsung even a 3rd OS with Bada phones), but a company of Nokia's size can not, is costing Nokia dearly. So I posted the message in the hope that we can have a discussion of why that is. What is preventing Nokia from building Android phones and having access to 50+% of rising market, instead of concentrating at a declining 5% of the market. BTW, the same cost pressures from competition that exist in the Android market also exist in the WP7 market. So for Nokia, WP7 does not provide them with anything different than the Android market beyond of having access to 50+% of the market instead of 5%. So I'm just trying to get an understanding of what Nokia's CEO is thinking (or what is in his contract with Microsoft) and how long it will take him to change that thinking that is killing his company. No matter if you love/hate Android or love/hate WP7, the fact is that, by the numbers, Android has been a run away success while WP7 a dismal failure. So I'm wondering how long before Nokia's CEO face that fact and start building phones for the vast majority of the market. After all, Nokia is a phone manufacturer. So it's about time they acted like one and built phones that consumers want instead of phones that consumers don't want.