“Microsoft’s new ‘strategic partnership’ with Nokia is not its first. For a decade the software company has courted and consummated relationships with a variety of companies in mobile and telecom,” Horace Dediu writes for asymco.
Here are the ones I can remember:
• LG
• Motorola
• Palm
• Nortel
• Verizon
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: While we’re on the subject, in a related area, let’s also pause for a moment of silence for all of the “PlaysForSure” portable devices and content services “strategic partners” that Microsoft dicked over, too:
• AOL MusicNow
• Archos
• BearShare
• Cingular
• Cowon
• Creative Labs
• Denon
• Digitrex
• D-Link
• Ericsson
• iMesh
• Insignia
• iriver
• Kyocera
• MSN Music
• MTV URGE
• Motorola
• Musicmatch Jukebox
• Nokia
• Palm
• PassAlong Networks
• Pioneer
• Philips
• Rhapsody
• Roku
• RCA
• Ruckus Network
• Samsung
• SanDisk
• Sonos
• Sony
• Spiralfrog
• Toshiba
• Wal-Mart Music Downloads
• Yahoo! Music Unlimited
Good luck, Nokia. You’re going to need it.
Related article:
Nokia cuts jobs, slashes R&D; adopts Microsoft’s Windows Phone ’07 in iPhone killer quest – February 11, 2011