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To: sylvester80 who wrote (34259)	8/22/2013 12:44:08 PM
From: pyslent	1 Recommendation Recommended By Road Walker Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

If the 1020 was an Android phone, you are right, we would not be having this conversation. If Nokia were an Android vendor, who knows whether they would be like Samsung or more like HTC, LG, Sony, Motorola. By Q3, I expect Nokia will be selling smartphones in the 9 million range, comparable to all vendors except Apple and Samsung. Among those also rans, who would you rather be? A differentiated OEM with control over their underlying OS and a chance to build a business around WP, or yet another Android vendor? I don't imagine Elop is envious of his counterparts at HTC, LG, or Sony.

To: sylvester80 who wrote (34259)	8/22/2013 12:48:33 PM
From: zax	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

Perhaps you should sell your stock in Nokia, Syl, if you don't believe in the path they have chosen. To be clear, Nokia will not be making an Android phone and any point in any forseeable future. They simply won't be. Nokia will not be firing Elop. Nokia will not be changing their Windows strategy. Nokia will attack both the high and value end of the market very aggressively. The value strategy will lower ASPs, not only for Nokia, but will suck the life from Apple as well; because it does in fact show the iPhone look like the rip-off that it is. The average ASPs for all smartphones will come down in the coming quarters as more people come to own smartphones. If you have a problem with the above reality (that will not be changing) there is really no good reason I can think of for you to be holding the stock.