It's one of the biggest technology news stories of the year, but for Nokia boss Stephen Elop, Google's decision to buy out Motorola only reinforces his belief that Nokia made the right decision in deciding to work with Microsoft on its future smartphones. 

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Nokia announced that it would be adopting Microsoft's Windows Phone as its primary smartphone operating system back in February, and it's since emerged that Elop and Nokia also gave Android some serious consideration – it being the most popular smartphone OS on the planet right now, after all.

But Elop has said several times that he feels Nokia made the right decision in choosing to work with Microsoft instead, a feeling that has only grown stronger in seeing Google swallow up a major mobile manufacturer in Motorola.

Google's sizeable $12.5bn outlay in acquiring Motorola is said to be largely about taking control of Motorola's large library of patents, but nonetheless fears have been raised in various quarters that the deal will see Motorola getting preferential treatment over the likes of Samsung and HTC. And Elop says those fears may well be justified.

“If I happened to be someone who was an Android manufacturer or an operator, or anyone with a stake in that environment, I would be picking up my phone and calling certain executives at Google and say 'I see signs of danger ahead',” the Nokia CEO told attendees at a seminar in Helsinki last week.

As for Nokia itself, the latest developments have only strengthened Elop's belief that Nokia made the right decision back in February.

“The very first reaction I had was very clearly the importance of the third ecosystem and the importance of the partnership that we announced on February 11, it is more clear than ever before,” Elop added.