Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before Microsoft

Re:Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before... by throwawaykf02 on Monday November 04, 2013 @10:38AM (#6669124)

Regarding Asha: I hear Asha is doing crazy well in low-end markets. Not sure how Microsoft can leverage it, but I'm sure they are aware of this.

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Re:Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before... by specialp on Monday November 04, 2013 @01:02PM (#6670065)

The low end is being destroyed by "white box" Android phones from China. There is simply no way to compete with them on price since they do not have to develop software and sell nearly at cost. This will be the same with high end phones soon as improvements level off and it becomes commoditized. I think that mobile phone manufacturers will have poor to no margins quite soon. The only place to make money now is through the ecosystem.

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Re:Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before... by Zigurd on Monday November 04, 2013 @10:53AM (#6669229)

Asha WAS doing well is developing world markets. Asha is now a dying business. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://allaboutwindowsph...

Microsoft bought itself another Kin.

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Re:Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before... by throwawaykf02 on Monday November 04, 2013 @04:05PM (#6671158)

Hah, even "something that was selling well" is not a description that could be applied to Kin.

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Re:Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before... by killme on Monday November 04, 2013 @11:05AM (#6669302)

What makes you think Microsoft bought Nokia for the Asha business?

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Re:Nokita: A Plan to Raise Billions and buy out Nokia before... by Zigurd on Monday November 04, 2013 @11:46AM (#6669571)

I stated the exact opposite

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