the one billion was to get them to use windows phone as their primary Os. But according to the deal. MS said (paraphrasing) nokia is allowed to make changes to wp at a core level. To understand why nokia choses wp you need to understand it from a investment perspective. Android is a lose in investment for nokia not because of customer size, but their brand. I tried explaining before it is hard, no one understood. For example. Ok nokia invest heavily in RND. So when ms told them they can do changes and improve wp, where they are market leaders a real world translation is-- you put your code in our Os and every phone with windows phone Os we sell you get royalties. So their Intellectual property is working, say htc uses wp, they have to pay ms and ms pays nokia for it's platform being built upon nokia's code. But on android, nokia will be the one paying royalties to google. The problem here is greed, nokia did not want it's investment go to waste. But seeing I cannot change what happened, I'm watching to see how ms-nokia does. I do think the way the situation was handled was wrong, I do think nokia handled it the wrong way. If they knew they were going to kill symbian they should not have said it in them way they did. Sony is an example of a company who made them transition very well. From sony ericsson xperia range, to SONY xperia. I am disappointed at the Nokia situation. But at the end of it all, all I can do is watch and see hating won't make a difference. And nokia is just a company like google, htc, samsung, all they care about is my money, so I'm look what works for my best interest. I don't understand though, why as end users do profit margins matter? Unless you guys have stocks? Ohh well.