Nokia chief executive says Google is making Android more closed

35. dorianb posted on 24 Jan 2013, 13:15 2

Haters gonna hate!!!

36. lallolu posted on 24 Jan 2013, 13:22 1

Maybe he was referring to the pricing benchmark that Google has made with the new sets of nexus devices which is making Nokia scared of how much profit they can make selling android phones.

37. Zero0 posted on 24 Jan 2013, 13:51 2

Because Windows Phone is ever so open.

That SDK policy has been in place for a while. It's a good policy. I love free software, but having multiple SDKs going around would be a huge problem. There needs to be a balance between consistency and openness, and I think Android is right where it needs to be.

42. rusticguy posted on 24 Jan 2013, 14:43 1

Ubuntu is coming soon ... and i am sure M$ and Apple would be first to get after them too. Profits are due to sales or due to adjustment in books?

51. UrbanPhantom posted on 24 Jan 2013, 15:35 4

Nokia is already earning a profit with WP8, and their sales are only going to increase during the coming year. Also, Android is a bastion of viri, and inherently insecure. Nokia wants to be an office worthy phone, not some habor for excessive malware. It doesn't fit their image to bother with Android, and Elop's comments are dead on accurate about fragmentation issues for the platform.

All you WP8 haters can suck on this ---

57. Omar-BHR95 posted on 24 Jan 2013, 16:48 7

ppl are saying hes destroying nokia , but hes actually curing nokia , just look at the sales of nokia lumia devices ITS GROWING QUARTER AFTER QUARTER .

62. Loubielou posted on 24 Jan 2013, 17:17 0

How can a Chairman that as made such a Popular name an now made them Struggle make such stupid comments,He an Microsoft are a Group trying to compete with Apple an Android an are miles behind,Windows 8 as not been succesful for Nokia an Microsoft ,so what will they do when the release of the Samsung Galaxy S4 an the Sales are falling more,because they make phones to Restricted,Shut Up Elop We Want You Out at Nokia

64. papss posted on 24 Jan 2013, 17:25 1

Whether any of you android guys like it or not there won't be a Nokia android phone for a very long time if at all AND they are now profitable which I'm pretty sure you all said wasn't going to happen.. It's not doom and gloom like you all want to believe.. We have so many business geniuses here..

71. rudlie posted on 24 Jan 2013, 19:34 1

I agree to Elop right now. it will better don't do dog fight with android vendors. now image windows phone stick on nokia. hope nokia with wp be a new pilar of smartphone with apple and samsung(android)

74. wp7tribes posted on 24 Jan 2013, 20:06 3

hahah if someone tell fandroids the truth they close their eyes and pretend they haven't read / seen anything then post blindly fanatic defence comments
its true fandroids worst fans out there

75. lubba posted on 24 Jan 2013, 20:49 0

PA, why are you trying to link Android with Nokia at the end of your comment!? f**king move on!

76. lubba posted on 24 Jan 2013, 20:53 0

My God! There's alot of sick, psycho minded, bitter, Android and the like folks in this site!

77. networkdood posted on 24 Jan 2013, 20:53 0

Wow, this guy should focus on his own business, as ANDROID is doing just fine...the amount of fragmentation has decreased so much in the last year, thanks to JB. The only real differences/issues are dealing with apps that the developer makes for the phone, but then will not be compatible with the tablet.

80. networkdood posted on 24 Jan 2013, 20:56 0

Elop secretly still works for MS, and this is just a PR move on what he said. If Nokia does not want to make an ANDROID phone, then so be it. I may one day purchase a WINDOWS phone from NOKIA. Just depends on what they have.

83. thunderbolt posted on 24 Jan 2013, 20:58 0

He should be talking about his own underpants than trying to smell someone else's. Typical MS Proxy....

84. lubba posted on 24 Jan 2013, 21:58 0

@networkdude ...i surely don't need to look in the mirror. I just read these sick same ole posts from you and the like. Nonstop grudge, hate, and what not. Nokia this, Nokia that. Wp this, wp that. Nokia should do this do that. And for you and PA, its more than three times. I don't often come to this fanroid site but when I do, this is all I see.

85. jameshoe posted on 24 Jan 2013, 23:41 0

Android Jelly Bean + PureView tech + PureMotion display + Nokia classic body design + Nokia collections = World's Best Smartphone

86. MorePhonesThanNeeded posted on 25 Jan 2013, 00:21 0

Grapes could never be more sour with this guy, Android is the #1 OS on mobile devices in the world...this guys talking about Android going to get more fragmented and closed...wtf? How does that even make sense, well I guess in his world it does. Google set stipulations for OEM to not changing Android thus creating fragmented OS(which makes damn sense, unless you want forty different versions of Android).
This in no way makes android closed, it just narrows down the fragmentation to only versions of Android in use that way Google can ensure that the eco-system isn't a giant confused mess of apps that won't work on similar phones running altered versions of android. Sorry but even in a free system you still have to set guidelines or else every tom, d**k and Steven will make up their own things and then you have customers complaining to Google about this and that when it's the OEM who screwed up.
You can dress up Android however you want, but the core of Android OS must remain true to it's version.
Elop should know about closed systems, WP8 is just that a completely closed system which every OEM phone looks exactly alike, what sort of utilitarian OS is this. How do you differentiate?!? They all look exactly alike, and shaped pretty much identical to one another, so only thing to sell the phone is, well this one has a great camera :-D. This one has a 720p screen, and this one has, WP8 and coming soon sync with Live right from your device, yes!
Nokia makes great devices but these guys had to sell their own bloody house in their home country, what in the hell kind of state is that to be in? Elop shouldn't be wasting words talking about Android as it just comes across as him really being jealous of their popularity and speed of maturity, basically a ..... Yeah you can fill in the blanks on that one.

90. nvrhde posted on 25 Jan 2013, 08:22 0

Dont care any more.
Experia Z , on the way.