On Sunday 13 February 2011 07:15:01 sankarshan wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Linux Lingam <[email protected]> wrote: > > this tie up will give a whole new-generation feel to the blue > > screen of death experience the world has come to love and relish, > > and was sorely missing on devices that generally just tend to > > work. > > I read a lot of angst and, general visceral observations on the > alliance. However, I've a question to ask - since there's not > enough data available in public that provides support for Nokia's > decision
Nokia: Reams of data on falling market share, inability of symbian to get developer traction, OS innards suffering from bitrot etc. > (and please, let's not use the current CEO's ex-employer > as a 'data point') That is proly the only reason. > should this list involve itself in conjecture > and hypothesis ? Both companies have fairly strong boards, a large > employee base and, a large, active shareholder base - a decision of > this nature actually ends up being discussed with a few of those > constituents. Employees "struck" work yesterday. So the guys who know a thing or two about the insides of a phone dont like it. Shareholders hammered shares down 14.3% in a single day. So the huys who know a thing or two about the market dont like it either. > > As a side note, the age of social media has thrown up an > interesting challenge - image the psychological stress of being an > employee at either of these companies (or, the companies in Open > Source that Nokia heavily invested in) when you see/read your > company as a 'trend' and, being ripped apart on a global scale. Mirosoft has always been a has been on anything connected with tech. On the desktop, their dirty tricks had helped them hold on well beyond the technology life cycle. However even that has worn thin. Logically, since they had already invested in some partly open companies and more recently, realising that partly open = mostly closed, tried to create a fully open stack in collaboration with other nearly dead (mobile) companies and Intel - MeeGo - they should have worked hard in that direction. Even when they went fully open, it was more about themselves than developers and consumers. Google android with a totally open strategy has simply steamrolled the "open is good if we are in control" mentality. Alas MeeGo is almost too late, but might yet let them survive. In the meantime someone has created a dalvik vm for MeeGo (some such mashup - grep google). A neat pointer to what they should be doing. The M$ deal is harakiri. Nobody has survived a tie up with M$ ever. Technically M$ is plugging ancient code on non X86 architectures (windows CE), and that too was a complete disaster on every device that i have seen. - Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
