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Comment on: Nokia admits it rejected Android; eyes "billions" in revenue from WP7 deal
I'm not entirely sure that 3 ecosystems will work out to the benefit of users. With just two platforms, there's a decent chance that top-selling apps will eventually be ported to both. But with 3 platforms, you'll see a lot more market fragmentation and picking of winners. Witness the Wii/XBox 360/PlayStation 3 mess.And because Windows 7 Mobile allegedly runs a dodgy version IE 7, we can't make portable applications using HTML 5, either.So we're really looking at something like 1985, when developers had to pick between DOS, the Apple IIe, the Mac, and the remnants of the 8-bit microcomputer ma