Nokia Partners with Microsoft Around Windows Phone 7

I think they made a mistake. They should do both Android and Windows Phone 7.
This way they will be consumed by Microsoft.

Disagree. Android already had a big manufacturer pool in a fragmented market. Nokia would be just "another" player. With Microsoft, Nokia will be able to influence the direction of WM7.

I predict RIM is getting worried too. Once the younger generation no longer sees Blackberry as THE corporate phone, RIM will build their phones on top of Android. They're already doing some kind of compatibility layer.

Android is bit of a risk because of Oracle litigation.

WebOS could have been an option.

Now if only WP7 had an HTML5 capable browser so developers making web applications (as opposed to native) optimized for newer smartphones didn't have to handle it as a special case, we'd be golden.

There's now way too many players in mobile space - HP/Palm's webOS, Android, iOS/OSX, Symbian, Blackberry OS + QNX (their latest purchase), and Windows Phone 7.

The trendsetter and the most advanced of all of these as far as stability, integration, brand recognition is iOS - everyone else followed suit, no one quite as successfully as Google and Android.

In this announcement I see an opportunity for the little green droid to put the final nail in the Nokia/Symbian coffin by buying RIM+QNX, destroying Blackberry OS & QNX, and converting RIM into a valuable hardware manufacturer - let's face it, they can make snazzy looking phones ... This will immediately bootstrap Google in the #1 position as far as market share goes by phasing out QNX + BB OS and rolling Android out on to every future BB device. There's a one-to-one match for all the apps on Blackberry Appworld to Android Market, with comparable quality - and at least a one-to-many overall with not so decent quality apps on Android Market.

The only serious contender Google will have at that point is Apple. Unless Jobs has groomed his executives to carry the torch once he completely retires (or passes), then Apple may be at risk of losing dominance too. Jobs is like a cult figure - for a good reason, he's freakin brilliant, visionary and deserves everything he had coming to him in the last 10+ years. Imagining Apple without Jobs, at least for me, is very difficult - so I'm betting on a wait 'n' see... Steve is going to leave everyone a good legacy - it'll be theirs to screw it up.

Google also has a huge gorilla on its back, the Oracle lawsuit, which smells like a cross-licensing agreement in the works - which means Oracle taking a piece of Google's ass or duking it out in court until someone "wins"... While Google and Oracle are at each other's throats, you can bet your bottom penny that their competition won't stand still.

The alternative for Google is to turn Go into a DalvikVM compiled language and substitute Go for Java, which bears C resemblance, scales well (goroutines), has GC, etc. That way they come out winners even if they "lose" the lawsuit w/Oracle and chances are, devs are going to love Go and adopt it quickly just as Java was adopted quickly when Gosling touched everyone's nerve back in the early 90's successfully.

In the end, Symbian will be dead, webOS & Windows Phone 7 marginalized and irrelevant, and Android and iOS will reign supreme....

Anyone else have their prediction? Come on - I thought this thread would generate 10x the responses :).

Since Google's taking on the tech world these days, while they're on top of their game, they could definitely help Canonical & Mark Shuttleworth develop Ubuntu on Wayland, given that a bunch of their developers are internally using a customized Ubuntu version (GUbuntu). In doing so, they replace the X legacy for the next 20+ years by gently phasing it out. Wayland can act as a X display server and an implementor of the X protocol. Not sure where that leaves their "Chrome OS", but given Ubuntu's _enormous_ popularity, dropping "Chrome OS", or I should say, dropping and trimming just a tad of the Google engineering hubris, sounds like an awesome strategy for GOOG.

Google already set the world free by making Android open/free, and if they can do the same for Ubuntu/Linux and create a killer PDF/PS-based GUI such as OS X's, they can set the OS world free, along with Canonical at the helm as their lead.

I'm willing to look at Google ads for the rest of my life if they're up for this. And once they've doubled their current market cap, and made Larry and Sergey into gazillionaires, those two ought to then become reverse tithers like Rick Warren and give away 90% of their income to Bill & Melinda Gate's foundation (just as Warren Buffet did) and be remembered for a long time after that by everyone on the planet who ever touched a computer.

Microsoft will be at version Windows 10 or 11 of their NT kernel by then, if all goes well....

The alternative for Google is to turn Go into a DalvikVM compiled language and substitute Go for Java, which bears C resemblance, scales well (goroutines), has GC, etc. That way they come out winners even if they "lose" the lawsuit w/Oracle and chances are, devs are going to love Go and adopt it quickly just as Java was adopted quickly when Gosling touched everyone's nerve back in the early 90's successfully.

In the end, Symbian will be dead, webOS & Windows Phone 7 marginalized and irrelevant, and Android and iOS will reign supreme....

Anyone else have their prediction? Come on - I thought this thread would generate 10x the responses :).

look forward to the suceess of both

Android and iOS are the only two serious players now, with Apple being two generations infront of everyone else. While this is a great move for Microsoft, it remains to be seen if it's enough. They'll keep burning the money, because they have it, and they just might get the piece of the pie. Symbian and MeeGo are out of the picture now (Symbian was dying anyway), and I don't see the bright future for webOS or Blackberry either. While webOS or WP may be good products from tehnical point of view, it's not the only thing that drives the market. Android will become like PC with lots of cheap devices, while iOS will take the High End market, like Mac. Tablets will replace desktops and laptops, except in IT. It would be interesting to see Google making the devices and how would that play out. It's probably the only way to get close to Apple quality.
I'm saving this to see if it'll end up like "640K ought to be enough for anybody" :)

Didn't Microsoft recently announce that WP7 will have IE9 in its next update?