Microsoft and Nokia won’t beget a Googorola clone | Monday Note

Excerpt from another timely Jean-Louis Gassée reality check

"One can’t imagine that Ballmer will call it a day and cede the field to Google and Apple. Personally, I admire his never-give-up attitude, always talking up the future, unfazed by past bold pronouncements gone wrong, but enthusiasm isn’t a strategy. And in the smartphone market, Microsoft doesn’t have many moves left. Regardless of the technical merits of its new mobile OS, momentum seems elusive; market forces that once worked against Windows competitors in the PC field now seem to confine Windows Phone to an insignificant market share against the two dominant and their complementary business models."

Microsoft and Nokia won’t beget a Googorola clone | Monday Note