Nokia may have been hooked line and sinker by Windows Phone 7 under new CEO Stephen Elop, but Nokia’s number one competitor in last decade’s feature phone wars is wholly unimpressed.
“I don’t envision us using Microsoft. I would never say never but it’s not something we’re entertaining now,” said Christy Wyatt, corporate vice president of software and services product management for Motorola.
Why not? After all, Motorola has had a rich history with Windows Phone 7’s predecessor operating system, Windows Mobile. However, in the post-iPhone age, Motorola seems concerned about adopting an operating system like Windows Phone that is not open source.
“We would like an opportunity to create unique value and we don’t feel we could with a closed platform,” Wyatt said.
Additionally, even if that wasn’t a concern, Microsoft simply delivered Windows Phone 7 too late and too under-featured to be considered, according to Wyatt.
“[T]here were a bunch of things that we believed about Microsoft that ended up not being true, mostly about what functionality it would have in what period of time,” she said.
