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Microsoft buys Nokia’s handset business and closes Nokia’s independent smartphone chapter
Key takeaways
- Nokia became a durable case study in how a hardware leader can lose a platform shift when software and developer ecosystem decisions fall behind the market.
- The Windows Phone pivot showed that abandoning an incumbent platform before the replacement ecosystem was competitive could accelerate decline instead of stabilizing it.
- The Microsoft deal mattered beyond Nokia because it highlighted how much power in smartphones had shifted from handset makers to platform ecosystems.
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