I agree. At the end of the day, Nokia's falling was most obviously a lack of vision and lack of good management —*but particularly the first. A basic example: for years I couldn't understand why mobile devices didn't sync over the Internet. We had all kinds of data packages, 3G and everything —*yet the phones were absolutely *horrible* at using it. The whole industry was ripe for disruption, which Apple did very effectively.

On your point about the N900 crowd disagreeing with my statement of the N9 being best, I know what you mean. I disagree with it, but I know many n900 fans (our startup's office is a couple of blocks away from the Nokia Research Centre, where all the Maemo stuff was done). To me the n900 showed, again, loads of promise. It was much, much better than the disgustingly bad n97 — yet was never pitched as an alternative to it. But it was still a bit klunky and lacked the fluidity of the Swipe.

An n900 would never tempt me away from the iPhone, but the N9 can. The N9 is one of the most tragic devices ever, really.