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Comment by aswanson | Hacker News Reader

Nokia's management made a horribly bad choice in choosing Windows over Android. It's 100 percent their fault.

You can read the full story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#Early_leadership_...

Stephen Elop is now an infamous business book case. He was a Microsoft manager, than a trajan horse as Nokia CEO who burned their main platforms, shifted to WinPhone, de-valued Nokia, MS bought the Nokia devision, MS burned the devision ... read the article, btw Nokia was the biggest phone and smartphone (Symbian) manufacturer back then.

If you're assigning blame, don't forget Nokia's board of directors at that time, who elected Elop and started that whole mess.

Choosing Android would not have saved them. Google didn't like Nokia and would've given new OS versions to other companies first. Nokia had to buy most of the components from Android phone manufacturers - Samsung, LG, Sony. They stood no chance.

They were doomed by the Symbian technical debt. When the iPhone came out, a very smart person posted a comment on HN saying Nokia is dead and he was right I guess :)

Why did google dislike Nokia?

Unless you can predict the future you have no proof that it would have saved them or not. But, one thing is certain - by choosing to exclusively go with Windows Phone they sealed their demise.

Also, your accusation that Google didn't like Nokia is also baseless and your explanation is bizarre.

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