>>>Quite true, from expirience in the animal world and from that time in the phone world...
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>Probably it's quite good for the consumer- the Android robot may be all cutsie in 2011 but no corporate can resist harvesting a dominant position, and that was Android's destiny until this announcement. Much of the market won't care that MS's sudden position was not earned (more likely bought- sure enough, more hundreds of millions of $ to buy a position) and if the big cellphone providers can be persuaded to back the new dynamic duo then things could change quite quickly.

I'm all for alive markets, but the combo of the game-oriented WP7 with the in europe strongly biz oriented high level nokia phones is not a great match - unless in the next 10 weeks the special nokia treats announced for WP7 are shown to be in the area of biz integration. Even then it will be an uphill battle - and more alpine than dutch hills ;-)