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Nokia downgraded to 'junk'
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 05:37 PM EDT
Having seen all that Nokia has been through the past two years, I'd say that
Nokia has really almost burned everything they have ever owned. Regardless of
how much Microsoft is paying Nokia to do this, I think Nokia has contributed
much more to Microsoft (many many times over) with all that they have burned,
not to mention the wasted marketing efforts and the wasted development (both
internal and external) efforts. I don't think Microsoft is too worried about the
situation with Nokia at all. There's no real penalty for them even if Nokia
falls. Nokia has managed to keep interest in their platform alive so far, and
might even survive long enough until Microsoft's next generation product
arrives. With the way Microsoft does business, this was probably as good a
result as Microsoft could have gotten. As for Nokia, I think it's just too late
to do anything to recover. I just wish (with almost no hope) that further harm
they will probably cause as they fall can be somehow minimised.

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Nokia downgraded to 'junk'
Authored by: DannyB on Wednesday, April 25 2012 @ 12:28 PM EDT
> . . . Now this news "Nokia downgraded to 'junk'".
> Whether Nokia survives or not, this moment looks
> very, very bad for Microsoft.


Maybe not so bad if Microsoft wants to buy Nokia for pennies on the dollar.

Then focus Nokia's capabilities on building only Windows Phones. Then resort to
tried and true monopolist tactics. Flood the market with phones priced far
below the cost of manufacture. It loses money at first, but that is not
important. What is important is to build a monopoly. Or in Microsoft's case,
extend their monopoly to phones. This monopoly is what is important, no matter
the cost.

Once you have a monopoly, you can charge whatever you want later.

(See the book: BIG BLUE: IBM's Use and Abuse of Power. This book describes
IBM's bad behavior many decades ago, and seems like it was a blueprint for
Microsoft in recent decades. It describes what I just said about the monopoly
being more important than any short term loss, and of selling finished products
priced way below manufacture cost to drive competitors out of the market.)

Microsoft destroying Nokia so they could scoop them up for nothing. Sounds like
a crazy conspiracy theory.

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