Last year, Microsoft threw Nokia, the cellphone maker, a lifeline, by taking over its cellphone operations, and most importantly, their software, with the idea of making Nokia's phones mini-Windows devices, with 'seamless' integration with Microsoft office programs running on other machines. just a few days ago, however, Microsoft announced the dropping of the Nokia name, so no more Nokia Lumina's - just Lumina's, if Microsoft even decide the keep that name.
The trivia question in the mid 2000's was : Who is the worlds' largest manufacturer of camera? Not Canon or Nikon, but in fact Nokia, because most of the cameras made, and certainly the most cameras bought , were in Nokia of which millions were sold
What went wrong?
Nokia cannot be blamed for 'not seeing the ccoming of the smart phone', because if fact they
Almost simultaneous with Microsoft's announcement came news of the final demise of anotherof the founding icon's of handheld devices - 'personal digital assistants', later to be integrated with phone facilities. This was Palm, which ruled the roost in this market in the mid 2000's, later Palm One, and ultimately taken over by Hewlett Packard. Thee was the incredibly innovative Treo series, complete with full keyboard, touch screen and stylus, with loads of supporting software, sorry, 'apps'. All these devices had their individual accounts, connected to the HP 'cloud', which provided universal backup in the event of less of data, updates and an app catalogue. This week, HP announced the termination of support: the apps catalogue service was to be closed and the HP cloud finally shut down as of next January.
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