http://www.mondaynote.com/2012/01/15...-rim-or-nokia/

In 2010, Stephen Elop, formerly a Microsoft exec, takes the helm and promptly states two brutal truths: This isn’t about platforms, we are in an ecosystem war; technically, we’ve been kidding ourselves. Nokia’s new CEO sees that the company’s system software efforts – new and improved versions of Symbian or Maemo/Moblin/Meego – won’t save the company.

Firstly, Gassée knows a lot about losing an "ecosystem war" - he designed and owned BeOS.

Secondly, he seems to disregard the ease with which Meego could have run Android apps a la Alien Dalvik.

Anyway, Gassée is my favourite IT commentator by a long way so I thought I'd post it up here.