Microsoft ditching the Nokia name on smartphones

Re:Microsoft ditching the Nokia name on smartphones by stealthlogic on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @12:44PM (#8493523)

Way to run Nokia into the ground Microsoft.

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Re:Microsoft ditching the Nokia name on smartphones by freehunter on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @12:59PM (#8493607)

Way to run Nokia into the ground, Nokia. Along with every other handset maker pre-iPhone who did not immediately release an iPhone competitor (Microsoft, Blackberry, Palm, etc). They all failed, just some of them lasted longer than others did.

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Re:Microsoft ditching the Nokia name on smartphones by adamman on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @01:13PM (#8493704)

Nokia got lazy. They saw the iPhone and didn't change course until it was too late. If anything, Microsoft kept them above ground.

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Re:Microsoft ditching the Nokia name on smartphones by pessimizer on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @02:32PM (#8494275)

Microsoft put Nokia into the ground with a single speech that obsoleted all of the phones that they had in the wild (and were still trying to get people to buy) for a phone that they hadn't developed yet.

The N900 and N9 were better than the iPhone, although that's not saying much.

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