Boston, MA 10/15/2013 (wallstreetpr) – Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) and Microsoft had made a $7.2 billion deal earlier. But their consignment is not really coming out very well in winning over the software developers including Tommy Palm and Jeff Smith. The two parties are giving a lot of importance to the co-operation of such developers who are still waiting for Microsoft to prove its ability in establishing a hold in the cell phone market. Tommy Palm is employed with King.com, a game maker for smartphones and Jeff Smith runs Smule Inc, the developer of music applications. The two application developers have stayed away from indulging in business with Microsoft. They have refrained from developing apps for phones which incorporate Microsoft’s Windows Phone software. Even after the company joined hands with the phone maker, they believe that Microsoft would only be wasting time, money and efforts.
Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer had announced this month the overtaking of Nokia’s handsets. The company has had good terms with Nokia since their partnership dating back in 2011. As of now, Ballmer is focused to shoot up his company’s $280 billion share in the smartphone market through this relationship. The company has been fighting to mark its stand among software developers quite since the time it first stepped into the Windows Phones market in 2010. It still has a long way to go as far as impressing developers is concerned to come up with new applications, be it games or other productivity apps.
The deal between the two companies is signed to close in the first quarter of the following year. According to most developers, Microsoft still stands on a risky platform in this matter. They say that although Nokia’s handset business is providing the company an outlook for Windows Phone devices, it still lacks the streamline of users or the prices and confusion pertaining to technical hitches in developing apps for the company’s devices. Developers see this collaboration as a long term opportunity with its uncertainties but fail to see any immediate attraction in it.
