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back to article The REAL winner of Microsoft's Nokia buy: GOOGLE

Nokia might well boost Microsoft’s smartphone market share, but it won’t derail Android on mobile or thwart Google’s search and ads money machine. Separate surveys say Nokia will consolidate Microsoft’s third-place status in smartphones while Google, helped by YouTube, will continue to dominate the cash haul from net searches …

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Anonymous Coward

        Actually Nokia made a tiny loss last quarter and were forecast to be back into profit next quarter....

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      "If the talk of a 'Newkia' company rising from the ashes and selling Android devices with ex Nokia brains designing it then maybe Google will be the winner long term."

      A company like that already exists; Jolla. They are not using Android though, but they are ex-Nokian's.

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  2. Donald Becker

    IDC has a history of being enthusiastic about whoever is paying them. Look at their Itanium predictions.

    This report says two things:

    Microsoft paid for the report

    They really hope that Android loses market share.

    Perhaps it also says the following:

    IDC people actually believe both iOS and Android will continue to dominate the market.

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