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Google and Motorola deal is 'danger', says Nokia CEO
FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia's anxiety about Google's purchase of Motorola surfaced yesterday when the struggling firm's CEO warned Android partners about "signs of danger".
Google's acquisition of Motorola will be a "danger" to companies using the Android operating system (OS), Nokia CEO Stephen Elop blustered.
According to Bloomberg, Elop said, "If I happened to be someone, an Android manufacturer or an operator, anyone with a stake in that environment, I would be picking up my phone and calling certain executives at Google and saying 'I see signs of danger'".
Google announced it will buy Motorola this week, while earlier this year Nokia entered what some say is an ill-advised deal with Microsoft that will see the phone maker use Windows Phone on its upcoming handsets.
Elop, who used to work at Microsoft, said, "In February when we announced the new strategy going forward, we made a decision to enter into a partnership that ensures the promise of what we described here today as well as many other things that we still have not shared and are still in our future."
Elop said that Nokia is working on augmented reality applications with information such as descriptions, navigation paths, friends' locations and shopping guides overlaid on the changing camera view of the user's surroundings on Windows Phone.
Nokia is aiming to ship smartphones running Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 update codenamed Mango in the fourth quarter, and they should tip up in the UK early next year. µ
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I can barely see Ballmer's
lips move when Elsop speaks his lines.
Elop -- Nokia's CEO and "ex"-Microsoft employee (a company who may well be "supplementing" his Nokia salary) -- should really have some reputation for smart, not-strictly self-serving business decisions in order to make "reputable" statements concerning his much more successful competitors. But he is a "damage-expert", as his choice to sell-out his present employer to his "ex"-employer has caused possibly irrecoverable damage to Nokia and the thousands of employees who have already lost their jobs. However, his self-inflicted damage to Nokia has little to do with the clever strategies being employed by Google and friends.
He (read: Microsoft) knows that Microsoft does not have enough money to fund the development of a WinCE mobile ecosystem, that Microsoft's (and Apple's) ability to use the patent system and legal threats against Google and their many business partners will shortly have all but vanished, and that there is no way that they can compete with the fast pace of development of Android and its application developers. So now Microsoft can no longer use legal FUD, and is left with uttering these empty threats via their puppet(s).
What if we eventually find out that before Elop made his stupid hush-hush deal with Microsoft, he tried to sell Nokia to Google?
Elop must be from the school of "stunt CEOs", trying out the riskiest, most value-destroying moves just to see if any of them work out. It isn't exactly working out at the moment, though.
What an odd phrase. Lot of companies now defunct have gotten promises from M$.
As for where the deal goes: I don't see go_ogle and M$ as necessarily competing. They're both crucial parts of the US surveillance state. go_ogle may be now working on the hardware for your very own portable telescreen, the better to spy on and give orders.
(GRR! Captcha error! X and K are UTTERLY INDISTINGUISHABLE!)
TOKYO ROSE( "SOUNDS SWEET, BUT YOU'RE ON THE LOSING SIDE") during WWii, ALL OVER AGAIN. THIS IS ALL MIS-DIRECTION. AND FUD. AIMED AT GOOGLE, ANDROID, by your and MY enemy. MicroSoft. DON'T YOU GET IT!!???? WELL, Get this.... IF YOUR BIGGEST. MOST ABLE. BEST FINANCED competition offered YOU advice. Would you take it. WELL! MS BOUGHT NOKIA'S "LOVE" for 1BILLION. CASH.. PERIOD.. SO. We EXPECT Nokia to say differently? We expect GOOD financial / product ADVICE from either? And about MS, I'm SEEING EVERY DAY,MS ph os numbers going SOUTH!!(yearly 1% new penetration!!?)I'M GOING TO LISTEN TO THE LOSER?? WHY? FIND OUT HOW TO WIN?? In real life you'd call me crazy. HEY!!WAKE UP.. THIS IS REAL LIFE. IGNORE Tokyo Rose.. She SOUNDS NICE, but SHE HAS NO LOVE FOR ME!!"HONEY YOU'RE ON THE WRONG SIDE"!!
He's right, there is a danger. This deal is extremely dangerous for Nokia and MS, and I suppose for Apple as well. As for the other Android phone makers, there is a need to determine just how much hands on Google is going to have in the Mobility business and to ensure that this will not effect their relationships with the other manufacturers but I think they can work this out suitably.
Mr Elop wouldn't know signs of danger if they came up and reduced his share value to minuscule levels over night!
Elop has really done no good to Nokia. He's spent all his time and energy talking down on his own company's products -- at a time when they have nothing else to offer!
What a foolish strategy, unless he's preparing the company for a cheap take-over.
From the beginning everybody has suspected Elop to be a mole sent by Microsoft to forward its own mobile OS' sales and to be honest, I haven't seen anything to convince, at least myself, otherwise.
If Elop really was a humble servant of his present company, why aren't they exploring other OS alternatives? Android is growing explosively and the public opinion has been clear that that's what people want. E.g. HTC and Samsung have been offering their mobiles with different OS' and been quite successfull, to say the least.
This all points out that Microsoft is clearly pulling more strings behind the scenes than meets they eye. Going after Nokia's huge patent reserves maybe to wage war on Android, perhaps?
63% is a steep premium for the deal, but I think Nokia is too optimistic assuming that the deal will drive phone manufacturers to switch to the Microsoft platform. At least not initially. Google will certainly be cautious about strategic actions considering it is now directly competing against its prior/current Android partners.
It is, and I agree, a perfect opportunity, however, to build a united front and compete against Apple. After all, Apple has brought suit against essentially all of them. The resources spent on defending and attacking each other in the tech space are reaching incredulous sums. This is going to blow up eventually. All this litigation is hurting innovation.
But yes, I do think this is Google's nest move in the war against Apple.
Google's War Against Apple
http://journalofsocalledbizwoman.blogspot.com/2011/08/googles-war-against-apple.html
Apple: Litigation as Business Strategy
http://journalofsocalledbizwoman.blogspot.com/2011/08/apple-litigation-as-business-strategy.html
"Elop said that Nokia is working on augmented reality applications"
I guess he's already living in an augmented reality...
Ex-Microsoft employee now running Nokia who are using Windows Phone 7 stirring things up about Google+Motorola+Android.
Who would have thought...
Google would have to be mad to do the dirty on the other Android phone manufacturers, the market could be 10 times the size in a few years time and the best way for Google to benefit is to get all their partners selling phones.
The deal is about patents pure and simple.