In the past, Nokia has chuckled at not wanting to use Android as an operating system to replace Symbian. Nokia then actually used Windows Phone which eventually brought it down.
Many people believe that Nokia’s reluctance to switch to Android is due to the selfishness of its officials. But there is a separate story that Nokia has yet to use Windows Phone and cannot switch to Android.
This is the story of the spectacular fall of Nokia in ancient times which has been analyzed by many experts or in book form. As it is known at the time, Nokia chose to use Windows Phone even though the world was getting hooked on Android. Apparently, there’s a reason why Nokia can’t use Android.
Nokia was aware of the weaknesses of its Symbian flagship, especially after the emergence of iOS and Android. Vendors at that time, like Samsung and LG, started using Android, but not with Nokia.
Stephen Elop, who became CEO of Nokia in 2010, immediately made drastic decisions. Among them, Symbian was shut down and chose to use the Windows Phone operating system on the Nokia smartphone line.
Turning to the Microsoft platform, Elop admits he’s not worried that Nokia might gain a small market share.
“If you use Android, obviously it will be too late for anyone in this industry because there is already one vendor that has dominated and sacrificed other vendors. Over the past two years, Samsung has captured massive Android market share and squeezed other vendors so that’s just a little more market share,” he said.
“We’ve made changes. But it’s very clear to us that in the current ecosystem war, we have a class decision to focus on Windows Phone with the Lumia product line,” Elop said on another occasion.
Elop’s strategy didn’t go well. Windows Phone has not been able to help Nokia out of a crisis. The question is why didn’t they just switch to Android when they saw that Windows Phone wasn’t required?
Apparently it’s not that simple. Finnish journalist, David J Cord, who wrote the book The Decline and Fall of Nokia, explained why. It turned out that Nokia at that time had an exclusive contract with Microsoft so that it could not use any operating system other than Windows Phone.
“The big problem is that Nokia has signed a long-term exclusive agreement to use Windows. They don’t have a plan B and they’re not free to act,” he said. detikInet by Neowin.
“They could just do like Samsung and use another OS and build their own at the same time,” he added. But the rice has turned to mush, Nokia is tied to Windows Phone until it collapses and is acquired by Microsoft.
Currently under the auspices of the new company HMD Global, Nokia is free to use Android. But obviously the competition is very tight and they are not as successful as they once were.
The Nokia company itself is still big, it’s just that it doesn’t develop its own mobile phones but instead outsources them to HMD Global. They focus on telecommunication infrastructure technology.
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