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Re:The Deal That Makes No Sense by protomyth on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @12:30PM (#6321869)
> 2) Someone else was going to buy them - I wondered about this with Apple's Maps fiasco, they had much better maps than Apple did, although I don't think Nokia would go for a breakup with partial acquisition.

Am I reading the news wrong or is this a partial acquisition? It actually looks like Microsoft just made it easier for Apple to buy the part of Nokia it would want (maps).

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Re:The Deal That Makes No Sense by ChuckMcM on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @01:16PM (#6322225)
I don't have inside information here, but from what I know about such things, breaking it up decreases the overall value sometimes. Sort of a "leave the desirable asset attached to the junk to ensure it all sells." In the press release Microsoft did they explicitly call out getting the Maps unit as part of the deal.

It would also have been a disaster for Microsoft if Google had bought them, not that I think they were thinking about it.

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