“If Elop was a mole, what were his instructions? ‘Elop. Go forth. Destroy Nokia so we can buy things we already effectively control for huge amounts of money.’ I’m put in mind of the wave of mergers in the 1980s among mainframe computer manufacturers, what we called at the time ‘dinosaurs mating’. Those didn’t make any sense either; when you merge two huge, doomed, inefficient thunder-lizards together you don’t tend to get a mammal. Meanwhile – and of course – Android continues to stomp its competition flat. Even the post-Jobs Apple can’t stem the tide; it’s pretty close to the 10% niche market share I predicted back in 2009 already, with no sign that trend will or can be reversed.”
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