Except Nokia is not well positioned to succeed as merely an OEM.

He gets that now the market is about ecosystems, but basically took the easy way in deciding to not even try to be an ecosystem player.

Granted backing S60 as an ecosystem of the future was flawed. Backing Meego as the base for an ecosystem of today was also flawed Personally I think the biggest mistake was the misshandling of using Maemo as a bigger part of the roadmap....it was abandoned in a dmaging way and in fact to early.

Maybe giving up was the right choice....but the result is still a death spiral with no way out, as being a hardware supplier to a ecosystem is not a viable future for any company other that one based around earning revenues by running the production line.

Strange thing is I suggest there is a viable ecosystem out there which can be build on using Maemo and Meego together as a roadmap - provided the community members feel there is a roadmap with transitions rather than dead ends. Maybe it is not a big enough ecosystem to support a company the size of Nokia.....but strange if Nokia doesn't want that community at all that no-one else seizes the opportunity.