On the upside for Microsoft, maaaaaan Nokia is getting cheaper to buy up. Going back to the car analogy, though, I'm pretty sure Nokia is worth more as parts than as the jalopy of a clunker it represents today.

I disagree. It's andemic to a culture that prefers to keeping closed-source close to the chest just enough so that the open-source hungry heathens will continue to purchase the next piece of hardware with the new OS on promises alone (promises of being better, being more open, etc.). You see it as a gross simplification, I see it as the consumer's biggest frustration. Even the ones that never came to ITT/TMO in all this time were frustrated that things were never fixed (i.e. family and friends I've known that bought their N8x0's because I had one.. and then suffered along with me and kept asking for fixes/improvments. To which--I had to relay the WONTFIXES and FIXED IN FREMANTLE and similar messages. They were more than simply annoyed. So was I, eventually.).