วันศุกร์ที่ 11 กุมภาพันธ์ พ.ศ. 2554

Friday Shocker: Nokia and Microsoft Partner Up to “Disrupt Mobile Ecosystems”

With HP introducing the Pre 3 and Veer streaming the stylish edition of WebOS, it gave smartphone customers modify more choice. The stylish news comes from Nokia and Microsoft, as both companies hit announced a partnership.

In an unstoppered honor cursive by both CEOs, Steve Ballmer and author Elop exposit the pore of this newborn relationship:

• Nokia module take Windows Phone as its direct smartphone strategy, innovating on top of the papers in areas such as imaging, where Nokia is a mart leader.

• Nokia module support intend and define the forthcoming of Windows Phone. Nokia module contribute its expertise on element design, language support, and support alter Windows Phone to a larger arrange of toll points, mart segments and geographies.

• Nokia and Microsoft module intimately work on development, render marketing initiatives and a mutual utilization roadmap to align on the forthcoming evolution of mobile products.

• Bing module noesis Nokia’s see services across Nokia devices and services, giving customers access to Bing’s incoming procreation see capabilities. Microsoft adCenter module wage see business services on Nokia’s distinction of devices and services.

• Nokia Maps module be a set conception of Microsoft’s function services. For example, Maps would be desegrated with Microsoft’s Bing see engine and adCenter business papers to form a unequalled topical see and business experience.

• Nokia’s extensive cause billing agreements module attain it easier for consumers to acquire Nokia Windows Phone services in countries where credit-card ingest is low.

• Microsoft utilization tools module be utilised to create applications to run on Nokia Windows Phones, allowing developers to easily leverage the ecosystem’s orbicular reach.

• Microsoft module continue to invest in the utilization of Windows Phone and cloud services so customers crapper do more with their phone, across their work and individualized lives.

• Nokia’s content and covering store module be desegrated with Microsoft Marketplace for a more compelling consumer experience.

[the prizewinning line]…There are another mobile ecosystems. We module stop them.

Oh. My. Gawd. I utilised to love Nokia phones up until their primeval Symbian OS days (I loved the 3650!), until iOS came along. Nokia hasn’t innovated in the smartphone arena, as their offerings hit been meet slightly more difficult than products from RIM.

It brings no assail that Nokia would team up with Microsoft, as author Elop was the past nous of Microsoft’s Business Division (he’s also a Canadian from Ontario).

Check discover their recording (Ballmer is awesome):

How module this partnership endeavor out? We don’t know. I prognosticate it could be a hardship as both companies haven’t shown some actual vision with their smartphones. The locution “the blindfold directive the blind” comes to mind. At the time of publishing, Nokia’s hit toll has dropped more than 10% in Helsinki–that’s not beatific news.

In a advise promulgation intermeshed towards investors, here are Nokia’s plans for the incoming two years:

Nokia expects 2011 and 2012 to be transformation years, as the company invests to physique the designed winning ecosystem with Microsoft. After the transition, Nokia targets longer-term: - Devices & Services gain income to acquire faster than the market. - Devices & Services non-IFRS* operating margin to be 10% or more.

Transition years, huh? This strategic partnership module give customers more choice, and module attain one more ‘real’ danger that Apple module hit to contend with, keeping Cupertino on their toes.

What do you think? How module Nokia + Microsoft intend along? Will this exhibit signs of brilliance or disaster?

[Nokia]


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