First Phone Out of Microsoft-Nokia -- and It's an Android 193
An anonymous reader writes BBC reports that the first phone resulting from the Microsoft-Nokia merger has been announced: the Nokia X2. And foiling everybody's ability to guess what OS it would run on, the answer is Android. But this being Microsoft, do expect some embrace-and-extend — the user interface is similar to the Windows phone. And it is being offered as a way to hook users into its cloud-based services, several of which come pre-installed as apps. Is this the first Linux product being offered by Microsoft? Can we upgrade Microsoft's social rating from CCC to CCC+?
So what? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:So what? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Seems like a 180 from their previous views (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:So what? (Score:5, Insightful)
Android already have ~80% of the market, this move seems to destroy one of the only competitors left ... empirically, that kind of monopoly has historically never been a good thing in the software industry.
Being able to grab the source and play with it, including doing whatever you wish without license fees kind of takes the sting out.