Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown
by T-A on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @10:06AM
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If Nokia had gone under (or switched to Android in a last-ditch attempt to shore itself up) there would have been 0 manufacturers of Windows Phone hardware left. That would have been the end of it. I guess Microsoft looked at how much they had already invested in Phone, compared that to the bill for Nokia, and decided they weren't ready to pull the plug yet.
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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown
by shadowmint on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @11:19AM
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Yeeesss... but $9.5 billion is, to put it mildly, a lot of money.
It's a little hard to suggest that for that price tag they didn't have any other options to manufacture devices.
Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown
by T-A on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @01:09PM
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With what lead time? The sequence of events would have been:
(1) Nokia dies.
(2) Devices already in the channels are cleared out at deep discounts (only way since there will be no upgrades, support, spare parts etc).
(3) The media proclaims Windows Phone dead since nobody makes devices anymore.
(4) Six months to a year later, the first Microsoft phones come out. Nobody even notices, since the platform has already been declared dead.