Microsoft to buy Nokia

[eek]

Another Barmy Ballmer move, Nokia would have went under since Apple and Samsung have eaten their lunch. With MS history of mobile devices this will be another write off in a few years.

I think its called stopping Windows 8 Phone dying. Nokia need to sell phones, Windows phones don't sell so say they announced they were dropping windows and going android.

I think that is what Nokia announced to MS cue mad panic purchase of the company to stop it happening.

[proggy]

Another Barmy Ballmer move, Nokia would have went under since Apple and Samsung have eaten their lunch. With MS history of mobile devices this will be another write off in a few years.

[d000hg]

This whole "Apple don't innovate" thing is irrelevant. Businesses make money by making a product people want to buy, and Apple are very good at that. Innovation costs a lot of money and also carries a lot of risk... many new inventions may be clever but nobody wants them.

[scooterscot]

So true...

A basket case company with no credible plan except to keep selling its legacy products and stick its foot in any other market that others are doing well in buys another basket case company. Definitely a marriage made in heaven.

Got to laugh!

Being absorbed by Microsoft is like abandoning the Titanic and being picked up by the Lusitania.

[amcdonald]

They were the first to place a accelerometer in the phone, now everyone does it as standard.
Apple pioneered the previous generation of smartphone displays in 2010, now everybody is installing HD displays on there devices.
Show me another computer that has the design & performance of the rMBP - it does not exist.
IOS for mobile devices, nearly everyone uses the latest software in their iPhones, compare that with Android, it sucks and we know.

Nearly every manufacturer out there has been following apples lead.

Upgrading the type of glass on a phone is evolution not innovation.

No not every phone requires you to hold in the approved Jobs manner to get a phone signal, even Microsoft managed to get that right

[scooterscot]

I can't remember the last innovation Apple have come up with, everything is just something already existing but more appealing to hipsters

They were the first to place a accelerometer in the phone, now everyone does it as standard.
Apple pioneered the previous generation of smartphone displays in 2010, now everybody is installing HD displays on there devices.
Show me another computer that has the design & performance of the rMBP - it does not exist.
IOS for mobile devices, nearly everyone uses the latest software in their iPhones, compare that with Android, it sucks and we know.

Nearly every manufacturer out there has been following apples lead.

[Bunk]

I can't remember the last innovation Apple have come up with, everything is just something already existing but more appealing to people, not geeks

FTFY

[amcdonald]

It seems to me Google & Microsoft try to increase their market share through purchasing other companies (often failing companies), while Apple creates its market share through innovation.

I can't remember the last innovation Apple have come up with, everything is just something already existing but more appealing to hipsters

[amcdonald]

I think this is a good deal for MS however I think they will loose the partners they have in WP in HTC, LG and Samsung as a result.

I think the odds on Stephen Elop getting the top job at MS have been slashed but I think he will get another senior job elsewhere leading the now vastly bigger devices business.

As the fifth columist for Microsoft who single handedly destroyed Nokia handing Microsoft all those patents on the cheap, nah they'll probably push him out nowthey don't need him

[scooterscot]

It seems to me Google & Microsoft try to increase their market share through purchasing other companies (often failing companies), while Apple creates its market share through innovation.

[Bunk]

History will be yet again changed to Microsoft invented the mobile phone

I thought Apple invented it

[Paddy]

History will be yet again changed to Microsoft invented the mobile phone

[redgiant]

BBC News - Microsoft to buy Nokia's mobile phone unit
Microsoft buys Nokia's mobile business

Well, to buy only their mobile phone business, approx half the entire business.

I think this is a good deal for MS however I think they will loose the partners they have in WP in HTC, LG and Samsung as a result.

I think the odds on Stephen Elop getting the top job at MS have been slashed but I think he will get another senior job elsewhere leading the now vastly bigger devices business.

[minestrone]

Could see that coming a mile off.

[d000hg]

BBC News - Microsoft to buy Nokia's mobile phone unit
Microsoft buys Nokia's mobile business

Well, to buy only their mobile phone business, approx half the entire business.