Under the direction and leadership of CEO Stephen Elop, Nokia may be very comfortable with their new agreement with Microsoft to utilize Windows Phone 7 on their upcoming Nokia phones, but the same cannot be said about one of their biggest competitors, Motorola.
According to Chisty Wyatt, Corporate VP for Motorola, “I don’t envision us using Microsoft. I would never say never but it’s not something we’re entertaining now.” You may be wondering what’s the problem with Motorola and WP7, afterall, Motorola has used Microsoft’s earlier mobile OS, Windows Mobile. The issue is that times have changed and Motorola has concerns about using a closed source operating system such as Windows Phone as it is restrictive and inflexible.
Wyatt continued “We would like an opportunity to create unique value and we don’t feel we could with a closed platform.”
This however is just one part of the story as Wyatt has also shown her company’s reluctance to use WP7 even if it was open because it has arrived on the market to late and it lacks features and options that are available on operating systems such as Google Android. You only need to see the number of apps in the Android market to realize just how much development is going on for this open source OS.
It it really interesting to see Motorola’s perspective on mobile operating systems and why they have chosen not to go with WP7. It also puts into perspective Nokia’s future plans on the mobile side as the company has been struggling with their own line of mobile phones and have turned to a closed source OS to try and regain market share from Android and iOS. It makes you wonder what Nokia was thinking.
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