Microsoft refused to purchase Nokia

    After many years of close cooperation on the basis of Windows Phone, Microsoft has almost stopped negotiations on the purchase of the Nokia phone business. Now all discussions have practically come to naught, writes the Wall Street Journal.



    The problem is, WSJ sources say, that Nokia was asking too much for a weak market position. Given Nokia’s not-so-impressive successes in recent years, it’s hard to blame Microsoft for not buying. Nokia, the world's No. 1 handset manufacturer, has lost its leadership to Samsung over the past year, and although its Lumia smartphones have received good expert ratings, consumers have enjoyed limited success.

    Microsoft is said to have paid Nokia over $ 1 billion to switch to Windows Phone. Now Nokia is valued at $ 14 billion, so the purchase of the entire business of the Finnish company would be quite expensive for Microsoft.

    Yes, and is it worth it? Surface showed that Microsoft itself can make high-quality hardware. Yes, Windows RT itself was not very successful, but according to rumors, the company now works on a Surface Phone, which could compete with the iPhone and reduce the dependence of the computer giant on Nokia. Experts say that at this time and at this price, Microsoft is better off trying to make the phone itself than to get into Nokia’s corporate drama.

    Although Lumia sales are slowly starting to grow, one cannot help but say that Windows Phone itself is partly to blame for the poor start of smartphones. And exactly Microsoft, one way or another, needs to do something more than simply improve the OS to compete with the iPhone and Android. The company needs a top-end device and such a system so that people want to abandon their smartphones. And does Nokia need participation and its acquisition here?

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