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> made a different choice but ultimately at that point it would still have been too late to save Nokia.

You think if they made just a single decision different and bet on Android instead of Windows, they would be in the same spot today? I wouldn't be so sure. Samsung hedged their bets across both and succeeded. Both weren't great at in-house software and Nokia made better hardware.

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I don't think Nokia at that point would have gone with Android with Google services which what the market wanted. They would have gone with Android with their own services (Maps etc) and app store.

I don't think that would have succeeded against Samsung and the Nexus phones.

But TBH I think going with Android would have a better move than what Elop did.

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