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12-04-2013, 09:40 PM
Each week Ross Rubin (http://twitter.com/rossrubin) contributes Switched On (http://www.engadget.com/tag/switchedon?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&ncid=rss_semi&utm_campaign=Engadget), a column about consumer technology.
http://hss-prod.hss.aol.com/hss/storage/adam/3168031bed5c893809daf5adf1428c79/bing.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/04/banishing-bing/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&ncid=rss_semi&utm_campaign=Engadget)Much like George Orwell's classic 1984, wars continue in the technology industry without seeming regard for who the enemy is or who it once was. Take, for example, Nokia's embrace of Windows Phone and Microsoft's subsequent embrace of Nokia. The once global smartphone leader initially championed Symbian as a countermeasure to the threat of phone domination by Microsoft. However, Nokia ultimately joined Microsoft in a bid to prevent the same from happening with Android.
Filed under: Misc (http://www.engadget.com/category/misc/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget), Internet (http://www.engadget.com/category/internet/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget), Apple (http://www.engadget.com/category/apple/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget), Microsoft (http://www.engadget.com/category/microsoft/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget)
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http://hss-prod.hss.aol.com/hss/storage/adam/3168031bed5c893809daf5adf1428c79/bing.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/04/banishing-bing/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&ncid=rss_semi&utm_campaign=Engadget)Much like George Orwell's classic 1984, wars continue in the technology industry without seeming regard for who the enemy is or who it once was. Take, for example, Nokia's embrace of Windows Phone and Microsoft's subsequent embrace of Nokia. The once global smartphone leader initially championed Symbian as a countermeasure to the threat of phone domination by Microsoft. However, Nokia ultimately joined Microsoft in a bid to prevent the same from happening with Android.
Filed under: Misc (http://www.engadget.com/category/misc/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget), Internet (http://www.engadget.com/category/internet/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget), Apple (http://www.engadget.com/category/apple/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget), Microsoft (http://www.engadget.com/category/microsoft/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget)
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