I honestly to the Goddesses believe, and this is the best analysis I can come up with, I honestly belive that

NOT DOING ANYTHING RIGHT;

- ignoring the competition,
- keeping to make small incremental attempts at improving the slow dinosaur Symbian,
- PR work like they did on the N8, nothing better than that,
- continuing to having a hard-to-develop for platform like Symbian has been,

would keep NOK survive longer. In fact, at least half a decade longer. They sold a whole lot of phones as late as January. Symbian were a _growing_ platform, G.d.i.

That wasn't the only path Nokia had to choose from. If they had chosen MY preferred path, Maemo and/or MeeGo would be a nice addition to the smartphone world, and Qt on either S40 or S60 would run on lower end phones all across the globe (except North America). I believe MeeGo+Qt is sell-able, but what do I know.

Instead they chose a pretty quick road to elimination. Was it the right thing to do? Stock market says no. What Nokia did, is nothing short of betrayal to it's stock holders.

What Nokia did, is nothing short of betrayal to it's quite large developer base. You know what Microsoft says about developers? Yes, THEY are the ecosystem. Nokia wanted to have one of the three large ecosystems? They HAD one of the three large ecosystems.

Never again.

What Nokia did, is nothing short of betrayal to it's fan base. The sales numbers tell me they must have a fan base somewhere. Well, not any more. Anything these fans liked, has been pissed on, then lit on fire. Now they can hope to inherit the Microsoft Phone fan base. What is left of it after MS took away Windows Mobile, Kin, and temporarily Copy & Paste, multitasking etc. But at best, even if they should have a high percentage of fan users, we're talking a small numbers.

As it's going now, Nokia as a stand alone Corp is finished. We all see it (except those agents of controverse who traverse these here threads wearing the name of some company rival to the one they are eMployees for). The path of WP7 has halved Nokias worth. It's easy to take away half of the stock value. It's very hard to double the stock value, especially when the income is also suffering colossally over night.

I did not, do not want to let go of the idea of Nokia; the innovateur. However, that's what Nokia already decided to do, so what's left, I have no sympathy for.

*phew*