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They make it sound like Steve had a choice in buying Nokia.

Nokia was already looking at Android for its Lumia range and the Nokia/Microsoft pact was at a end come 2014. If Nokia decided to start rolling Android phones it would have signaled to general consumers that Windows Phone was a dud, something Microsoft can not afford, not with all they money they pushed into the mobile OS.
 
AlphaJohn said:
They make it sound like Steve had a choice in buying Nokia.

Nokia was already looking at Android for its Lumia range and the Nokia/Microsoft pact was at a end come 2014. If Nokia decided to start rolling Android phones it would have signaled to general consumers that Windows Phone was a dud, something Microsoft can not afford, not with all they money they pushed into the mobile OS.
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It's no secret that the tradional desktop PC is continually fading away, and that it will eventually some more mobile form of PC will take it's place. I think all the people that only know MS windows now, will still prefer MS windows on this device.
 
As much as MS was forced to buy Nokia I still it was a good decision, if only they could leave Nokia / HW Phone division separate from MS with autonomy
 
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