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Originally Posted by Kre
Rafe,
I was saying, IF it goes through. Who knows who exactly will make this phone. Someone will, though. None of us really know or can be sure until its officially announced.
But for logic sake, not Microsofts, I feel I must point out in reference to your example, even though Microsoft doesnt build pc hardware, expecting them to agree to having another competing OS ship with the same computers Windows ships with, is like expecting Nokia to ship its phones with both an MS OS and Symbian. Or to expect Apple to ship its computers with both the Apple OS and Windows. Microsoft isnt required to agree to allowing additional OS`s to ship with Windows, just for the sake of being nice.
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I think the point being made was that MS was saying to someone else we wont let use Windows if you install BeOS as an option. Forcing another company not to do something doesn't seem right to me.
You alternative about Nokia doesn't make sense. It would be like Symbian saying to Nokia you cant use Symbian if you also use MS). i.e. its an OS provider imposing terms of use on manufacturers and obviously this is anti-competitive. Yes it is for business reasons, but its not right. It be like a tyre company saying to a car manufacturer you can only use our brands of tyre.
Oh yeah and I think the major thing about ericsson thing - well yes someone will make an MS phone, but if its not a big mobile phone player it got a much smaller chance of sucess.
Rafe