Nokia Shifts its Loyalties . . . Sort of

12.02.2011
Nokia on Friday announced it with Microsoft to help both companies compete with Google's Android and Apple's iOS. Unfortunately it looks like Nokia might have used desktop software from one of its smartphone rivals to make part of that announcement.

Nokia posted a with CEO Stephen Elop and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer highlighting the partnership on its . If the background music sounds familiar, that's because it's the same music Apple used in its .

The loop, titled Pendulum, is bundled with iLife, and its use raises the question: Did Nokia use Apple software to produce its Microsoft partnership video?

seems to think so. The site credits Romanian blogger Adrian Boiglu for first and suggesting the video was created in iMovie.

I'm not so sure that the soundtrack's presence is a smoking gun that points to Nokia using iMovie to produce the video, but it at least makes that a clear possibility. At the very least it is safe to assume that an Apple workstation was in the mix at some point. (Final Cut Studio, anyone?)

The loop itself can be used by anyone who creates movies on a Mac, as long as it is for noncommercial use.