This shows the resilience of Samsung which is one of the key reasons it was able to penetrate the smartphone market both in developed and developing countries' mobile handset markets. This made it switch to Android OS and it was a success but it still experimented with its TIZEN OS with lower end phones and now it has resurfaced again in the form of Watch OS for Samsung Gear S2 in 2015. This was a similar strategy that Samsung adopted, it used Symbian, then developed its own OS named TIZEN but it was not able to catch up. This would have helped Nokia dump Windows OS for Android OS and this would have also helped them sustain their market share and develop their MeeGo OS simultaneously. As a second option it could have looked outward and experimented with both Windows Phone OS and Android OS by launching a flagship device and a mid range device which runs both the mobile OS similar to what Samsung did. MeeGo development team later broke off from Nokia to commence their startup SAILFISH Unfortunately it didn't go for this option. If you want to know more about MeeGo then check out for Nokia N9 videos on Youtube. It was one of the first Mobile OS to work completely on swipe gestures without the need of a back-forward-home button.

It should have looked inward and ideally gone ahead with the development and support of its linux based Mobile OS MeeGo before it decided to rely fully on Windows Mobile OS. When Nokia was stuck with a rigid Symbian OS which was making it difficult for developers to develop apps, it should have taken any one of these decisions : Stephen Elop became the CEO of Nokia in the 3rd quarter of 2010 and it all started with him and the then outgoing Nokia devices' head Anssi Vanjoki. Nokia's innovation in hardware technology was not cascaded to its software side at the right time. If you are feeling that meaning of A is making more sense in the case of Nokia's acquisition then you are right. An asset or object obtained or bought by a museum

This is pertaining to acquisitions done by Microsoft in the past few years - Acquisition of NOKIA and LINKEDINĪ. Please read the complete article before arriving upon any conclusion. As a business analyst it is always interesting to put your argument on the table pertaining to business decisions made by corporates.

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