The problem is not mainly elop but the board, who just messed up everything in the last years. Of course they did some things right, like acquiring Qt, but they did it too late. When I first used an iphone I knew what I saw was the future (it was easy to see), somehow nokia did not. The switch to Qt took its time, but I wonder if it would have happened faster without all the destractions along the road. Like the maemo/moblin merge, huge investments in symbian and some of those failed ovi services. I think the board members are in general very risk-averse, they prefered symbian because it was considered a mature platform, and now they don't believe their own meego software guys can compete with google/apple/microsoft, even if the signs are there. Rather choosing the easy way by embracing microsoft. Thats the way to make your company more and more irrelevant.