Thread: Microsoft to buy Nokia's Devices and Services in $7.2B deal
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Old 09-03-2013, 07:48 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
Things change.
Even before this deal, WinPhone was growing market share faster than anybody.
The Balmer email makes it clear that the Nokia units will now be Microsoft's hardware unit; don't think this is just about phones. Tablets, of course. But with a top-notch hardware design team in-house and a mandate to go after the consumer market there is a whole range of possibilities now open. We may yet see the Courier. Or a Zune 2.
I don't see Win Phones ever getting higher than a distant 3rd; and Zune HD 2 better have an app store or it'll fail like the first one did.
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