Why Nokia should not buy Yahoo..

While reading Stephen Wellman's article "the top 5 reasons Nokia Should bid on Yahoo" , I found a guest comment to oppose these argument more interesting.

Five reasons Wellman listed for Nokia to bid on Yahoo:
1. Nokia wants a stronger desktop presence if Nokia wants to be a web company.
2. Navteg+Yahoo=Nokia's dominance of mobile location
3. Nokia needs to grow its U.S. market share and Yahoo is a brand that could help it.
4. Nokia is a mobile ad company that needs to grow its share of onine advertising
5. Nokia cannot afford to let Microsoft or Google gain any more online market share.


Comments from one of the guests read this blog:
1. Nokia doesn't need a desktop presence. Destops are dinosours. (I agree on this point. I would think a paradigm shift is what Nokia should make to allow mobile become a digital information/media platform. It should just bypass desktops)
2. Nokia can manage well without Yahoo. It owns the end devices.
3. Nokia's care of US market is less than $45bn. The far east and developing nations is where the mobile growth is.
4. Why would they spend that money trying to shoehorn themselves into an already saturated market, that has such a dominant encumbent?
5. Adding Yahoo to Google is just a blip on their revnue sheet and Microsoft is not even dominant in thir home.


I really think that Nokia (or anyone else) should focus on a paradigm shift of digital world. It's just like my first feeling to hold on OLPC. Why should we chose a costly "laptop computer" (even though it's already under US200) to bridge digital divide in the developing world? Mobile platfrom with multiple function capability can do a lot now adays and iit's gonna be a lot easier to have it close to $100. What would be more important is how the content is deployed to the device.

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