All this stuff going on with Nokia is something that reminds me of Commodore. I've recently read the book "On the edge - The spectacular rise and fall of Commodore" and some of those incredible executive mistakes are being repeated by Nokia today. In fact, it is even a bit ironic that one of the main competitors of Nokia is the very same one that Commodore nearly obliterated back in those days, namely the evil fruit company.

It seems to me that Nokia executives should listen more carefully to their developers and tech staff. Those people closest to the technology usually knows best what will be popular and strong in future because most of them usually live and breath the stuff they develop. They should listen to their loyal customers who knows more than anyone what they want.
Nokia will fail miserably with WP7, I'm sure of it. I'm not an enemy of Windows CE at all, it it a very good OS in the bottom there, but it is simply the wrong direction and moment in time for Nokia to go for something like that. It isn't just as simple as to bring in two strong company names to succeed, you need some very strong innovations to succeed and WP7 simply doesn't cut it.
I hope N9 will sell good enough to prove my point, but sadly enough it probably won't.

It it is a sad time for the customer market these days that has only one player that try to make its own way instead of the boring mainstream competitors. We basically have one evil choice, (the rotten apples) one plastic and fake linux (Android) and that's it.