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I am not sure Android could have saved Nokia. Samsung survived in smart phone business because of their display and memory. Chinese smart phone makers was able to compete because of the enormous support from CCP. I was on another oil platform call "HTC" when Nokia platform was "burning". Eventually HTC went down too.

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> because of the enormous support from CCP.

People claim this about literally every single thing China was successful at. A government can't just magically make its companies successful in every single industry.

What did the CCP do exactly to make these phones better?

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Also, HTC didn't exactly have the market dominance of Nokia. So not sure the situations are comparable.

Android itself probably not, but their Maemo efforts were far ahead of Android already.

Nokia had made Maemo success then they might had a chance.

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