All may not be lost for struggling Nokia, BlackBerry

With the Nokia acquisition, Microsoft actually placed a bet on hardware which has never been its strength. (Reuters) Just a few years ago, seeing an Indian youth with a Nokia or an office-goer with a BlackBerry device on the road was a common sight. In 2009, about 70 per cent of smartphones sold globally had operating systems offered by BlackBerry and Nokia and the two stalwarts were going strong.
But even tech leaders can, at times, fail to gauge when a particular phenomenon can go extinct.
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