Nozukiane? What The….

Posted by: Peter Murphy on Aug 03 2008

Well after my last post it seems Nokia and Microsoft are ganging up on me. Never have an opinion, it’ll come back to bite you in the butt. By the way I’m not paranoid…………… Are you lookin’ at me!

Anyway, what would a partnership between Nokia and “The Zune Team” make you start imagining, No No No, don’t say it!

This has nothing to do with device manufacture, it’s about integrating the “Zune Marketplace” into the Nokia/S60 platform.

"Nokia is currently working with the Zune team on integration of Zune Marketplace content according to a well placed source within Microsoft. The joint development is directed at content delivery rather than a hardware device according to the source. It has long been assumed by many tech followers that Zune content and software would find it’s way onto Windows Mobile devices, thereby offering competition to the unfortunately popular iPhone. The interesting thing about the Nokia Zune partnership is that Nokia does not support Windows Mobile. It appears Microsoft may be developing a two front war against the iPhone, namely Windows based smart phones and more abundant ‘non-smart’ phones."

What does it say to me, M$ is looking to increase it’s revenue via digital music licensing, on other platforms. When Jack posted this today at ExperienceMobility.net, probably like many, I think of a Zune phone, but really it’s M$ trying to gain a greater foothold in the online music world.

Are we witnessing the death of the physical CD, mobile devices lacking optical drives. Promotion for more and more online stores, and limitations. You either buy from one or the other!

Who’s going to be the first to license the cloud as we are now calling it?

Via ExperienceMobility

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