How Nokia benefited from going Windows Phone vs Android

Oh man, here is a passage from the Forbes article they cite:

"Nokia’s faith in Windows Phone seems to be paying off for now. The company continues to not only dominate the Windows Phone market but also take away market share from rivals such as Samsung and HTC, according to a recently released report by AdDuplex. The usage stats for April show that Nokia has increased its share of the Windows Phone market to 80%, up from about 78% a month ago."

I suppose I should take pride in the fact I'm the most handsome man in my car most days.

Wow. I want some of what they are smoking.

Had Nokia mixed their ecosystem in with Google's at an earlier stage of the development of Android, Nokia might well be where Samsung is now, or have a big slice of that pie.

It is galling to read justifications like "Nokia does not have Samsung’s vertical integration" when the reason is parts of that had to be thrown overboard to prevent collapse. Nokia still has more software capability than Samsung.

Android scales down to low-end hardware pretty well, and Nokia would have had a successor to S40, too. When the S40 business gets hit by the onslaught of very inexpensive Androids from China, the game is pretty much up for Nokia.

Nokia started from a position of commanding, unassailable dominance. Analysts called Nokia "Tier Zero" of the mobile device business. The platform may have been burning, but the result of subsequent decisions has been that it has become a charred remnant.

More shrill desperation. The floor's huddled ears behind the closed door chews their forefinger tittering over Steve's vitriolic expletives and .... yes! There it it is! Throwing and breaking things!