Nokia was at one time the world’s largest phone
manufacturer, practically any candy bar style
phone sold in the late 1990s until 2011, were
made by Nokia, but over the past five years, its
market share has steadily declined. The
corporation’s stock fell from a high of $40 in 2007
to under $2 in 2012 – obviously a company in
turmoil.
Nokia was running on an operating system (OS)
called Symbian that was clearly out classed by the
likes of Apple’s iOS and the NKOB (new kid on
the block), Google’s Android OS. Once Apple
launched the iPhone in 2007 (hey, credit where
credit is due) it caused customers look at mobile
phones differently. Touchscreen phones started
growing in popularity and once Android started
to compete, Nokia simply fell out of the picture.
They needed to act and act fast, something their
Board of Directors (BOD) could not seem to do.
In late 2010, enter the Trojan Horse called Steven
Elop. He was a former Microsoft executive and
was hired by Nokia to take the helm. Many
thought he should switch from the Symbian OS
and start manufacturing Android devices, like
former Symbian phone manufacturers Samsung
and Sony chose to do. But, instead he cooked up a
deal with Microsoft, his former employer, to sign
an agreement that Nokia would make only
Windows Phones until 2014. A pretty sweet deal
for Microsoft, but not so good for Nokia.
Android OS continued to dominate and Samsung
grew to become the world’s largest mobile phone
manufacturer. Nokia makes a solid phone and
their flagship Lumia series continues to receive
critical praise, but the problem is that the
Windows Phone based OS are simply not selling
and part of the reason is the lack of apps
developed for it. Microsoft was even paying
developers to make the apps for their phone and
today you still cannot get Instagram, one of the
most popular applications. It is a catch 22 – app
developers want a large device base so they can
make their money, but apps are the lifeblood of
an OS and until the apps are there, the sales will
not be.
There has been a lot of speculation that once
their agreement with Microsoft was done in 2014,
Nokia may start to make Android devices as well
or, even go exclusively with Android and drop
Windows Phones altogether. That is when the
Trojan horse dropped the news – Elop reached an
agreement that would allow Microsoft to
purchase Nokia for $7.2 billion dollars, and that
brought Elop back to Microsoft, where Steve
Ballmer just happened to announce that he was
retiring shortly.
The New York Times revealed that Nokia already
had working Lumias that were running the
Android OS long before the Microsoft buyout. No
one would confirm that Nokia’s delving into
Android was part of the negotiations, but it was
widely thought it was a possibility. Most
companies have a “Plan B” or “Plan C,” so their
work with the Android OS makes sense.
The Times was told that it was a fairly easy task
to get the Android OS to run on the Nokia Lumia
phone. This should have given Nokia
tremendous bargaining power, letting Microsoft
know they had other options. If Nokia would
have made the switch to Android that could have
been the final blow to the Windows Phone since
Nokia produces more than 80-percent of all
Windows Phones sold.
Nokia was harshly criticized for going with the
Windows Phone over Android back in 2010 when
Nokia still had a 32.8-percent share of the
smartphone market, when by the end of the first
half of 2013 Nokia’s share of the smartphone
market fell to a low of 3-percent. Nobody can
truly say if they would have been better off going
with Android in the first place, but I do not see
how it could have been any worse.

Source:www.androidheadlines.com/2013/09/nokia-android-running-companys-lumia-handsets-well-microsoft-deal.html

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