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Intel CEO: Nokia Should Have Gone With Android

Posted by Soulskill on from the completely-impartial-observations dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Did Nokia choose M$ or did M$ choose Nokia? by Sleepy · · Score: 4, 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...