Intel CEO: Nokia Should Have Gone With Android 246
nk497 writes "Intel CEO Paul Otellini has said Nokia made a mistake choosing Windows Phone 7, and should have gone with Android — but admitted the money on offer may have been too much to ignore. 'I wouldn't have made the decision he made, I would probably have gone to Android if I were him,' he said. 'MeeGo would have been the best strategy but he concluded he couldn't afford it.' Otellini said some closed mobile platforms will 'certainly survive,' but said open systems will 'win' in the end."
Reader c0lo notes a followup to yesterday's news that open source software was banned from Windows Marketplace. It seems even Microsoft's own MS-RL open source license runs afoul of the Application Provider Agreement (PDF). The article suggests that these rules should give Nokia pause about their new partnership.
really intel? (Score:2, Interesting)
Intel should not speak. They are the one's putting drm into their chips....Talk about being open. Ass hats!
http://gigaom.com/video/intel-chip-drm/
Consumer choice (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Almost Everyone Agrees (Score:4, Interesting)
Nokia's stock would've fallen even if they'd announced they were partnering with Jesus to bring an open-source version of iOS with Android's user interface to the market. They've spent absurd amounts of money acquiring and developing Symbian and collaborating on MeeGo as their primary platforms for the next decade, so switching to any alternative is a tacit admission that they'd thrown that money down the drain. A new partnership also involves a big transitional period in which it's very difficult to make much money. Investors do not like that kind of news.
Re:Short Nokia stock (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:It was a business decision (Score:2, Interesting)
You're already up against the wall and MS has a track record of going the extra mile for its partners both financially and technically.
I don't think that phrase means what you think it means.
Microsoft has a track record of going the extra mile to fuck its partners over both financially and technically.
LG, Motorola, Palm, Nortel, Verizon, Ericsson, Sendo, SGI, Novell, and even IBM. All had major difficulties within a few years after partnering with Microsoft directly due to the partnership and Microsoft fucking them all over.
Microsoft partnerships are where companies go to die.
Re:Did Nokia choose M$ or did M$ choose Nokia? (Score:5, Interesting)
Agreed.
I'm not a Nokia phone user, but I used to be an avid Nokia n800 user and developer. It was an -amazing- tablet OS... but then Nokia threw out the API *twice* (or was it THREE times when they switched Maemo from GTK to Qt?). Nokia pissed off all their developers and users, because they wanted to make it a phone OS. They didn't see that Google had already won the open source phone OS war, and Nokia could never catch up and beat Android in the OS space.
Ironically, Google's been struggling to get Android running on tablets well. Tablets could and should have been a Nokia market...
The n800 was awesome for it's time, 800x480 and awesome video.. it simply needed scaling up in screen size.
Gmapper would download Google Maps while you drive, but this was on maemo YEARS ago.
I would have paid double cost the n800 to get one with a 7" diagonal screen, but Nokia management threw it all away....
Even after Nokia halted development of Maemo, some Nokia engineers continued to help the open source community. On their own time of course, since management didn't seem to understand the opportunity that they blew, or the hostility caused by their constant mission changes...