{"id":5778,"date":"2011-08-10T16:57:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T14:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5778"},"modified":"2012-12-12T15:30:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T14:30:29","slug":"nokia-married-microsoft-but-microsoft-can-sleep-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5778","title":{"rendered":"Nokia married Microsoft but Microsoft can sleep around"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nokia &amp; Microsoft via BI\" src=\"http:\/\/static5.businessinsider.com\/image\/4df8c8094bd7c867231a0000\/nokia-grabs-apple.jpg\" alt=\"Nokia &amp; Microsoft via BI\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nokia &amp; Microsoft via BI<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nokia is either dead, or saved by the strategy explained in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nokia-explains-how-it-will-win-north-america-2011-8\"> this article<\/a>. I give 80% that it&#8217;s dead, but 20% is still a chance. And if Windows Phone does take off it will be the miracle that Nokia needs. Problem is that WP should it be a success, it is also available for HTC and Samsung. Indeed it is HTC not Nokia who is the number one biggest seller of Windows Phone now. But Windows Phone sells 15K units a day worldwide and falling and Android 550K and growing fast. Nokia surprisingly still sells close to a million phones a day, most are cheap phones but still the largest maker by units. But HTC and Samsung have destroyed Nokia&#8217;s market in smartphones by adopting and thriving with Android and effectively together with iOS killing Symbian. So betting on WP is betting on a platform that as it stands nobody wants and if by thanks to Nokia it succeeds then Samsung, HTC and others will have it as well.<\/p>\n<p>Not only it is hard to understand why Nokia went with Windows Phone but also why it went exclusively with Windows Phone instead of having Android as well.<\/p>\n<p>Nokia married Microsoft but Microsoft gets to sleep around.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5778\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nokia is either dead, or saved by the strategy explained in this article. I give 80% that it&#8217;s dead, but 20% is still a chance. And if Windows Phone does take off it will be the miracle that Nokia needs. Problem is that WP should it be a success, it is also available for HTC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[567,38,37,632],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6438,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778\/revisions\/6438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}