Microsoft paying Nokia 1 Billion‏

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/03/microsoft-paying-nokia-1-billion-to-use-wp7-cheap-at-twice-the-price.ars

Microsoft is paying Nokia 1 Billion Dollars to sell windows phone 7.

"Please....Please sell Windows Phone 7. We will pay you. We will pay you lots and lots of money..... just please sell it. We know it sucks. You know it sucks. The customers know it sucks. But please we are begging you to please sell it."

Can you imagine Verizon asking Steve Jobs for a Billion dollars to sell the iphone. Can you imagine the stare Steve would give right before he burst into laughter.

Verizon was drooling over the opportunity to sell the iPhone. Apple didn't need to pay anything.
Of course Microsoft is a different story. Microsoft is like the Titanic 20 minutes after it hit the iceberg. Everyone knows it's bad but nobody wants to admit it. This is the Titanic...... Greatest ship ever built...... This is Microsoft........ the greatest company in the world.

In the end they will both suffer the same fate.