Is Nokia jumping into a burning vessel called Microsoft ?

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Is nokia in the path of self destruction ? this was the question came to my mind when i heard the nokia is going to tie knot with microsoft and hit the iceberg before sinking itself, i don't know whether nokia is being egoistic or hatred towards the android, one thing for sure their market share is declining like a collapsing world trade center day by day, if this continues you can see "Defunct company" in wikipedia about Nokia corporation, I also suspect whether it is the plan of Microsoft to take over Nokia Strategically?.

So who will benefit from this partnering?

It would definitely workout well for microsoft because its getting a partner who is pioneer in quality hardware than any other players in the market but for nokia for sure its a risk that costs its own survival for future, since the partnering makes nokia a handset builder rather than having any control over its software platform. and yes windows mobile developers like me who was planning to switch to other mobile development platforms like android will surely benefit from this.

Is nokia ignorant or headstrong in its decision?

I think nokia is very overconfident in repeating history since it revived a legacy dying platform called psion epoc and built a new platform called symbian over it, though there is every chance of windows phones os to again take over the control of market share since nokia has the capacity to manufacture wide variety of handsets from touch to qwerty with its strong hardware platform combined with windows 7 awesome form factor and user experince i think google has to be cautious and step a head now.

Though nokia would have been seen a double success rate if it has tied up with googles android since most of the people even non techies know the fact that nokias powerful hardware coupled with android would be a killer device, i know many of uncles and aunts who are technically challenged are seeking for "Nokia ANdroid Phones" but this common perception of people is some how masked by the people at Nokia by their strong hatred and egoism.

What ever it is bottom line "nokia is jumping from one sinking platform(symbian) to another (windows phone 7)"

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