Michael Gartenberg at Jupiter Research asks the interesting question why Nokia is licensing S60 to third parties (currently LG and Samsung). He says…

"Licensing to folks you compete with doesn’t work, either your licensees do better than you do, (in which case often the license revenues don’t make up the shortfall) or you do better than your licensees (in which case your licensees wise up and go elsewhere)."

I wonder if this has come about due the way Nokia is structured? The business unit that develops S60 is separate to the several units that create phones.

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