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Re:Tech giants have as much money and influence as nations by bostik on Sunday January 12, 2020 @06:01AM (#22025673)
It wouldn't have made any difference.

Nokia R&D had a touchscreen-only phone prototype in early noughties. It got killed, and while I have not seen the actual memo, I've heard people quoting from it: "Nokia will never make a touchscreen-only phone."

Apple launched iPhone a few months later.

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Re:Tech giants have as much money and influence as nations by hocuspocus on Sunday January 12, 2020 @08:33AM (#22026185)
Also, after talking to people who were employees at the time, it seems Nokia could have put an order of magnitude more resources behind MeeGo, but decided not to. When they realized their mistake, it was too late and jumping to Windows Phone looked like the only reasonable move.
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