I think we can agree that Apple is the king of cut'n paste (in every aspect), a fact that is proven in court.

MS-Nokia will be OK because they have the will and guts to do it. That is reason number one. The first WP was limited in too many ways to be attractive. The hardware-built on all the first WP phones were way below OK standard.

Now, Nokia and Samsung will compete head to head, pushing the industry fwd. They both want MS rather than Android. HTC and LG will come along for the ride, possibly also SE.

I want MS+Nokia to succeed because Nokia makes the best phones by far. It will simply be too bad if they went down the drain.