Software beats hardware

We now know that Microsoft is planning to buy Nokia’s smartphone business. The proposed plan here being to that by creating an end-to-end experience from the hardware up creates an experience that makes life easier for the end user.

The reason why a platform owner would try to own everything from the hardware up do this would be to gain control. If a user creates a document on their Windows 8 laptop and Office 365, actually making that document appear on a Windows Phone smartphone should be ea...