Column: Not everyone needs candy crush - why (and where) Nokia and Microsoft have a chance
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Conventional wisdom solidifies very quickly these days.
It is already safe to say that Microsoft’s purchase of Nokia’s handset business, announced around midnight Monday, is perceived not just as a stinker but as a double stinker, a shotgun marriage of two losers headed nowhere in particular.
“It will get very, very messy, and the whole thing is probably doomed,” writes David Pogue, a technology blogger for The New York Times.
Some reviewers have found the Nokia Lumia line of Microsoft Windows-based smartphones to be elegantly designed, competitively priced, and quite as fast and functional as their competitors.
Doesn’t mean a thing.
'I don't know what the big brouhaha is all about' Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman plan to deputize gun-owning county residents is progressing, with some having completed training. Opponents call the plan "flagrantly illegal." NewsdayTV's Virginia Huie reports.
'I don't know what the big brouhaha is all about' Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman plan to deputize gun-owning county residents is progressing, with some having completed training. Opponents call the plan "flagrantly illegal." NewsdayTV's Virginia Huie reports.
