• Microsoft kills what's left of the old Nokia
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[url]http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/25/microsoft-kills-whats-left-of-the-old-nokia/[/url] [quote]Last week, Microsoft sold off what remained of Nokia's feature phone business while Windows Phone's market share slid below a single percent. Now, the company has taken what's clearly the last step in correcting Steve Ballmer's decision to purchase the mobile world's former number one. The Verge has secured an internal memo from Microsoft's Terry Myerson saying that the company will cull 1,850 jobs, 1,350 of which are in Finland. The company has also recorded a $950 million impairment and restructuring charge on its balance sheet, of which $200 million will be severance payouts to those employees.[/quote] So overall the disastrous acquisition of Nokia resulted in Microsoft losing [url=http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/25/11766540/microsoft-nokia-acquisition-costs]around $8 billion[/url] and Nokia ending up dead
Such a shame. I have a Nokia Lumia 521 (Which I replaced with a Oneplus One). It's a really REALLY good phone considering I only paid $60 for it (without contract or anything). Windows is such a nice OS on the phone, but Microsoft likes to retain so much control, you couldn't get any worth while apps because you couldn't make any. As an example, you can't get any audiobook app that will remember your place that you stopped because that program isn't allowed to interact with files on your phone to that extent. So you would have to import the file through that program itself, usually uploading it and then re-downloading it through Onedrive or something, so that the app would have the appropriate permissions to remember your place. With Android, you download an app it's like this app will access these things. Sure go ahead. Windows is the opposite. This program will not access anything because we won't let it The best way to describe it is like this. iOS and Android are like Dreamweaver, and Windows is like Geocities. Sure you can make a nice looking website with Geocities, but you're limited to what it gives you Microsoft only has itself to blame
It's a big shame - combined with them cutting jobs, I'm guessing they're going to shut down their phone? With the reborn Nokia going Android, I'll end up switching to that cus no way I'll use iTunes and an iPhone again.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;50390869]This isn't the first time they've done that though These engineers obviously wouldn't sit idle considering Nokia has/had one of the best engineers and architects in the world, hopefully we get to see something exciting coming from them soon like it happened in the first wave[/QUOTE] Exciting hardware wouldn't be worth much without a OS that's equally exciting. And whichever company/companies ends up with those employees most likely doesn't have the capital or the will among upper management to restart their old projects and make them able to actually compete with either Android or iOS, especially since Microsoft had the dosh and influence but failed hardcore. They'll have to stick with a existing and atleast moderately successful OS, but tailor it for the Nokia experience.
It's pretty hard to like Microsoft despite the fact I'm using their OS right now. Relevant: [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27rfr59RiE[/media]
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