"Yes really. Nokia could have gone with Google but in doing so they would have scrapped billions of dollars worth of services and time spent on those services."
They wouldn't have had to scrap anything. I just said what they *could* have done. They would have had enormous latitude to customize the software experience and bundled their own apps and services.
"Instead, they went with Microsoft and got $2billion cash per year and somebody to buy off their sinking handset division."
And that's the only reason. An enormous hat full of money, or rather whatever passes for money coming from Microsoft - licences, software support, broken dreams etc.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
