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To: Road Walker who wrote (7385)	5/25/2012 12:10:20 PM
From: pyslent	4 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9255

" And WP gets so much better reviews than Android.... hopefully the consumer will catch on." Agreed. Additionally, for a company that has as strong a wireless IP portfolio as Nokia, switching from their own OS to WP has allowed them to extract a significant licensing revenue stream from Cupertino. Microsoft provides the IP indemnification needed for WP, making Apple's strength in IP moot as far as Nokia is concerned. They couldn't say the same if they were still developing Meego and certainly not with Android.

To: Road Walker who wrote (7385)	5/25/2012 12:17:56 PM
From: sylvester80	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9255

So are you saying that Nokia's hardware can't match Samsung's hardware??? Cause considering that Samsung is also in the Windows phone market, what makes you think that if the WP market share rose to 20% that Samsung can't bring the same Android hardware over to WP and do the same thing that you are saying they are doing to other Android manufacturers??? It's like people think Windows Phones live in a vacuum and they are forgetting that there is no difference between Android and WP other than market share. They are both open for everyone to join and compete. Nokia and Samsung and HTC and LG compete just the same in WP as they do in Android. It's just that the market share is so tiny (2.2%) that most of them don't spend as much resources to bring over their top guns. But if the WP market took off, they would, and they would compete aggressively. And I fail to see where that would leave Nokia in the WP market, especially if you are saying that they can't compete with the top guns in the Android market. Either Nokia can compete or they can't. And if they can compete, it is a hell of a lot better to compete for 62.2% of the market rather than 2.2%... and if they can NOT compete, then the writing is on the wall, irrelevant if its the WP wall or the Android wall or both...