Microsoft Exec Responds To the Google-Motorola Deal 293
adeelarshad82 writes "In a statement released yesterday, Microsoft's Windows Phone Division President Andy Lees said 'Investing in a broad and truly open mobile ecosystem is important for the industry and consumers alike, and Windows Phone is now the only platform that does so with equal opportunity for all partners.' What's interesting is that even though some analysts are actually expecting OEMs to switch their focus to Windows Phone 7, past sales figures (especially for Samsung) show that the decision to do so might not come easily."
Analyst can chime all they wish. (Score:3, Insightful)
I mean, android is what 47% of smartphones, and Microsoft Windows 7 around 2%.
Keep on wishing bitches!
Up is down, down is up, cats and dogs agree. (Score:2, Insightful)
Everyone gets same deal as Nokia? (Score:5, Insightful)
So when Microsoft says this:
Windows Phone is now the only platform that does so with equal opportunity for all partners.'
Does that mean that everyone gets billions of dollars from MS?
http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2011/04/21/nokia-and-microsoft-deal-official-definitive-agreement-signed/ [thenextweb.com]
As a result of the deal, Nokia will pay Microsoft royalties for the Windows Phone platform, starting only when the Finnish company launches its first Windows Phone devices. Microsoft has also agreed to make payments to Nokia “measured in the billions of dollars” for services but also intellectual property royalties.
Or are we supposed to believe that MS would have paid for Nokia's IP even if Nokia hadn't switched to Windows Phone?
Equal Opportunity (Score:4, Insightful)
I love how it's assumed that somehow the acquisition of Moto will make Android less open to the Android alliance members... I guess that's the normal tactic. Spread FUD.
Re:Analyst can chime all they wish. (Score:0, Insightful)
Good job you stupid whore. You managed to (again) bring up the iPhone even when it wasn't the topic. I hope Jobs' cock is worth the price of servitude.
Re:Everyone gets same deal as Nokia? (Score:4, Insightful)
It does, however, mean that Microsoft's claim that, with Google acquiring Motorola Mobility, Windows Phone is the only remaining mobile platform where all hardware vendors are treated equally is false, or at least if it is true it is true only in the Animal Farm sense of "all vendors are treated equally, but some are treated more equally than others".
And Android is still owned by the Open Handset Alliance, which includes more device makers than just Motorola, more software vendors than just Google, and a bunch of wireless carriers, component manufacturers, and other firms in markets where Google doesn't play and isn't buying anyone at the moment.
Re:Not. (Score:3, Insightful)
What a bunch of fanboy nonsense.
Google isn't an "altruistic and idealistic organization that truly cares only about making life better for everyone." They're a multi-billion-dollar megacorp whose business is based on a closed-source search-and-advertising platform dependent on selling your personal data to advertising partners. They make sleazy non-neutral internet deals with vendors just to push Android. They withhold Android source from non-privileged partners and ship closed technology like Flash, AAC, and MP3 support in Chrome, even as they preach about openness. Android is a free product pumped into a new market to maintain the dominance of the core business and kill off competitors who can't afford to compete with an artificial price, the same way Internet Explorer was pumped into the browser market to kill off Netscape and keep the Windows platform relevant.
The benevolent little tech company from ten years ago is long gone. In its place is a gigantic advertising conglomerate under investigation around the world for antitrust violations and privacy breaches. Google is another Microsoft and is no better.
Microsoft still elicits a predictable reaction on Slashdot, repetition of the term "FUD" as if it automatically counters all arguments. And, as always, there will be mysterious Underrated moderations to such comments because Overrated/Underrated moderations aren't subject to meta-moderation, a loophole that Slashdot has left unclosed for years. I think what has happened to this community is that Reddit and Hacker News drew most of the more objective posters away, leaving the hardcore ideologues behind who automatically stand behind Google and automatically hate Microsoft, Apple, Sun, and anything else that competes with Google. Slashdot's overall position was always skewed by default, but there was actually a degree of objectivity that used to shine through in the comment sections. That very rarely occurs today.
It's really quite fascinating that there isn't more outcry over the fact that a closed-source product from a corporation has become the gatekeeper for the web, but apparently, if you use Linux for your business, all is forgiven, and you are a pack of angels trying to make the world a better place rather than another scum-sucking corporation leveraging their monopoly to make a dollar.
That's installed base (Score:4, Insightful)
And it's only in the US.
Worldwide it's much grimmer for MS, but in the US it's pretty bad.