Microsoft to buy Nokia

[amcdonald]

They were the first to place a accelerometer in the phone, now everyone does it as standard.
Apple pioneered the previous generation of smartphone displays in 2010, now everybody is installing HD displays on there devices.
Show me another computer that has the design & performance of the rMBP - it does not exist.
IOS for mobile devices, nearly everyone uses the latest software in their iPhones, compare that with Android, it sucks and we know.

Nearly every manufacturer out there has been following apples lead.

Upgrading the type of glass on a phone is evolution not innovation.

No not every phone requires you to hold in the approved Jobs manner to get a phone signal, even Microsoft managed to get that right

[scooterscot]

So true...

A basket case company with no credible plan except to keep selling its legacy products and stick its foot in any other market that others are doing well in buys another basket case company. Definitely a marriage made in heaven.

Got to laugh!

Being absorbed by Microsoft is like abandoning the Titanic and being picked up by the Lusitania.

[d000hg]

This whole "Apple don't innovate" thing is irrelevant. Businesses make money by making a product people want to buy, and Apple are very good at that. Innovation costs a lot of money and also carries a lot of risk... many new inventions may be clever but nobody wants them.

[proggy]

Another Barmy Ballmer move, Nokia would have went under since Apple and Samsung have eaten their lunch. With MS history of mobile devices this will be another write off in a few years.

[eek]

Another Barmy Ballmer move, Nokia would have went under since Apple and Samsung have eaten their lunch. With MS history of mobile devices this will be another write off in a few years.

I think its called stopping Windows 8 Phone dying. Nokia need to sell phones, Windows phones don't sell so say they announced they were dropping windows and going android.

I think that is what Nokia announced to MS cue mad panic purchase of the company to stop it happening.