I also agree that Microsoft surface <http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US>is going to change the tablet arena. Especially the surface with Win 8 Pro (it can apparently run all Windows 7 apps). Android missed the opportunity to make an impact in that field. However, I fail to see how Nokia would ride on Surface success given that it's a Microsoft hardware and software. As for the mobile, and I could be wrong here, Nokia will still have to compete against the likes of HTC which also manufacture brilliant phones on Windows software platform. On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Steve Obbayi <steve@sobbayi.com> wrote:
Quite the contrary. Actually Nokia's health has shown considerable improvement. The previous 3 quarters its losses were over a billion dollars. Secondly if they were not paying the unavoidable European Union costs of downsizing then they would have actually turned a profit. So it looks they are the right track to recovery it just cant happen in one quarter.
Then also don't forget that consumers have held back awaiting the WP8 phones being released next month so it was expected that WP7 phones would see dismal sales since Microsoft announced that there will be no upgrade to WP8 for WP7 devices.
Finally the developer experience that Microsoft has unleashed in my opinion tops the charts.
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*From: *"James Nzomo" <kazikubwa@gmail.com> *To: *"Skunkworks Mailing List" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> *Cc: *"skunkworks" <skunkworks@my.co.ke> *Sent: *Thursday, October 18, 2012 9:46:05 PM *Subject: *Re: [Skunkworks] Nokia reports $754 million quarterly loss as Lumia approaches one year anniversary
Elop is the cancer that is killing Nokia!
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2012/10/18 Kevin Omondi <kevin.ouma@gmail.com>
Should Nokia have just gone Android ?Check out this story from The Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/18/3517778/nokia-q3-2012-financial-report
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