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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by paganel on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @10:07AM (#9851574)
Not sure why you're getting downvotted, over here in Europe the Lumia phones are pretty popular.
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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by trimbo on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @10:29AM (#9851712)
I Googled stats to verify this claim and you're right. Last fall, Windows Phone was on par with iPhone sales in some European countries, and in fact beat Apple in Italy (TIL)

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/29/kantar-september-2014/

Though it sounds like some of those fortunes are turning since the iPhone 6

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/05/06/iphone-marketshare...

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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by BrianEatWorld on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @10:46AM (#9851840)
Poland is an even more interesting story as Windows Phone has close to 20% market share.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-is-windows-phone-outselling...

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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by MatthiasP on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @10:23AM (#9851671)
They are popular in some parts of Europe because of the Lumia (Nokia) brand, not because of Windows phone.
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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by Someone1234 on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @10:32AM (#9851733)
The two things are inseparable at this point. So I don't really understand the distinction you're making, it isn't as if people buying a Lumia don't know it will be running Windows Mobile.
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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by Grue3 on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @10:41AM (#9851796)
No, I would bet most people buy them because it's a Nokia, regardless of the OS. Case in point, my mother who seems to only buy Nokias because they used to be the best brand. I told her to buy an Android phone and she somehow found and bought a Nokia Android phone (I didn't even know they existed). It had some weird Metro skin too so that it looks like a Windows Phone but is actually an Android.
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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by ZenoArrow on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @11:52AM (#9852382)
> "I told her to buy an Android phone and she somehow found and bought a Nokia Android phone (I didn't even know they existed). It had some weird Metro skin too so that it looks like a Windows Phone but is actually an Android."

I think you're referring to one of the Nokia X devices:

http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/phones/nokia-x/

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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by vetinari on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @10:39AM (#9851787)
Many don't. They are buying Lumias, because they always bought Nokia. They haven't got the memo yet, that it's no longer Nokia.
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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by frik on Thursday July 09, 2015 @12:53PM (#9859106)
Maybe in some (northern) parts that still remember the Nokia brand. Otherwise, Android and iOS are the really big players, with Android being number one in Europe followed by a strong iOS. WinPhone, Blackberry, FirefoxOS, JellyOS, etc. are of little interest for the average joe buyer.
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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by newsreader on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @12:08PM (#9852560)
I'm getting downvoted? Sounds like a bad thing but I'm not concerned. I'm a Hacker News reader and hardly ever write comments. I'll be fine. Thanks for the heads up...
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