Stronger than expecting earnings and Lumia selling well in Italy and a few other countries have seen Nokia actually knock iPhone off the sales charts - ok the new iPhone is round the corner so sales always dip this time of year but its still quite an achievement. Investors are happier (not Happy) that things have started to pick up. Samsung are of course runaway leaders here, sporting Android.Does Nokia need Android to kick on ?
Nokia shipped 61.1 million phones and its market share plummeted to 15.8% last quarter from 22.5% in Q2 last year; 61.1m is a large number and even at 15% its a decent market share. Microsoft will be quick to point out that they have come from nowhere to keep Nokia afloat almost within two years.
The best thing for Nokia is to adopt Android, Nokia do make some fantastic hardware and while their old handsets are falling out of peoples hands and being replaced with Android handsets, many resent losing the Nokia brand because they are loyal. So why lose them at all. Its clear from the market share customers are moving away from the hardware - just the same as some are attracted to Windows but there is an imbalance.
Without Android the Nokia brand while still has some relevance today, could stay as an also ran. Just in the last year it has fallen (in market share) while Microsoft has used them well to meet its own gains where it has failed miserably before. Only one winner there.
Nokia adopt Android and stop being Microsofts trojan horse.