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To: Eric L who wrote (1356)	5/3/2012 2:50:08 PM
From: waitwatchwander	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1647

Is it imaginable to ever see Nokia, RIM and HTC being folded into a consolidated offering? What does each bring to a consolidated party? Nokia - Maps, global low end consumer dominance, WP8 Integration/Device Expansion, European market share, Zeiss cameras and an army of software/hardware integrators HTC - BeatsAudio, Android, East Asian manufacturing and North American consumer market share RIM - Enterprise Email/BBM, QNX Integration/Device Expansion and international enterprise/government market share It is hard to see how this could ever work but it's also hard to see how slugging it out in the trenches works for any of these folks either. It all seems like a Catch 22. Nokia only looks good due to their past biggest. The other 2 only look good due to their past selective niche growth. Then there is the fuzzy nature of the Motorola situation that needs to find a home. Will the Chinese just nibble away at these holdings as each withers away upon their selective vine? Maybe Nokia and RIM coming together first makes sense but any consolidations on these fronts today couldn't be seen as a merger of equals.