Comments on: After OPPO, Nokia forces VIVO out of the German smartphone market https://nokiapoweruser.com/after-oppo-nokia-forces-vivo-out-of-the-german-smartphone-market/ Nokia, Android & interesting Tech news Wed, 21 Jun 2023 12:42:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: MickyB Aus https://nokiapoweruser.com/after-oppo-nokia-forces-vivo-out-of-the-german-smartphone-market/#comment-45683 Fri, 14 Apr 2023 17:48:02 +0000 https://nokiapoweruser.com/?p=93343#comment-45683 Doesn’t surprise me. Oppo, Vivo, Realme, and OnePlus are just different brands of the same Chinese patent company, BBK. The patent licence likely has expired for all of them. I’m not sure how much the licensing costs across all their markets, but BBK is huge. They probably rolled the financial dice, weighing the risks versus costs across all their markets (including China) and figured it’s cheaper losing a couple of foreign markets than paying the fees.

Their fan base are going to be unhappy with Nokia, so they don’t lose there either.

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