Yesterday I posted an article on what Nokia developers have to say about the proposed Nokia-Microsoft partnership, a post that has triggered a number of interesting comments both here and on other sites where the article was linked – some of these comments positive but also some negative. It’s being speculated that the partnership is doomed to failure and that this is the beginning of the end for Nokia as we know it.
Many well known bloggers, analysts, journalists and customers alike most probably have valid arguments to back this belief, but there are even more that believe otherwise and foresee a success in this partnership. But for Nokia’s upcoming Windows Phone-based smartphones to succeed, Microsoft and Nokia need backing from the worlds mobile operators and Vodafone in Germany seems to be on their side, for now – Jan Geldmacher, managing director, enterprise business at Vodafone Germany, said in an interview with PC World at the Cebit trade show in Hanover.
“We are very much looking forward to the new products that will come from the cooperation between Microsoft and Nokia,” Geldmacher said.
However, unlike Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop, Geldmacher doesn’t view the battle for smartphone OS supremacy as a three-horse race. He sees the situation as a fight between Apple, Google’s Android and its backers, Microsoft and Nokia, and Research In Motion, as well.
Today, Apple dominates the smartphone market, with Android increasing its market share quickly. But RIM in the enterprise field is important as well, according to Geldmacher.
“We think that a fourth operating system, with Nokia and Microsoft will be a positive thing for the market overall,” he said.
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