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Old Feb 3, 2022 | 10:50 pm
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Originally Posted by DELee
There's one additional element to consider in the smartphone wars: the OS struggles and getting apps developed on specific platforms as well as how open or closed a given development environment/ecosystem was.

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Do you think that (from Nokia's perspective) Google would have been a better suitor than MS? Such a move would have been bad for consumers because we'd be confronted with a duopoly, but if you were the Nokia boss at the time, wouldn't you prefer this to sticking with Symbian or marrying MS?
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