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Old 04-29-2005, 11:19 PM
surur
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I'm sorry you think school-child like is a terrible name. I just think it best describes your position.

Now I wonder what you think Palm could have done to prevail against MS. If it producing a multi-tasking, expandable, multimedia OS,with a proper file system, then basically they would have become a pocketpc to beat a pocketpc. The fight used to be between simplicity and battery life vs complexity and power. In the end it seems to be developing into who has the best mini-computer. Of course MS started from that point, hence pocketpc. Its the whole Palm community who have come over to the "dark side", even without knowing it.

Now the fight against symbian is a different fight, but in the end its for the hearts and minds of consumers, and Nokia already has a reputation for boring phones. MS is also not known for being bad at partnering and marketing.

I'm not saying Nokia is dying tomorrow. Im saying in 5 years there will be parity in market share between MS and Symbian. Do you think this is impossible? People used to say the same thing about Palm and Pocketpc.

Surur
 
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