You're right. Thanks! Although, I'm not sure that I'd prefer Windows OS over Android for any reason at all. Especially if, in the end, you get a forever half-baked operating system (speaking of half-truths and lies, let's not pretend Windows Phone is so very different an operating system from Windows Mobile, upon which it is based and has been failing to evolve past its failures for well over a decade) with limited capability and library.


Maemo is about as open in those regards. Have you forgotten that Maemo is closed-source enough that Mer couldn't succeed? What about the power management and connectivity daemons and other back-end operating system portions of Maemo that are fully closed, in addition to the drivers and applications you can't even uninstall without breaking the operating system (calendar, media player, etc)? At least, on Android, you can use the AOSP to build an operating system that at least WORKS without the closed-source portions.

Bringing this all back home to the topic, though: I don't see how Nokia can't take the blame for their own failures and it's incredibly shameful to see Elop and Nokia blaming anybody but themselves.