They didn't capitalize on funding and marketing Maemo properly. They kept the majority of the money and resources on Symbian, relegated Maemo to a start/stop affair that never seemed to congeal into a marketable, mainstream product.

All of that was under OPK. They preceded the iPhone with the Maemo products and Nokia responded with the N97. Not a good response if you ask me.

The disastrous handling of what came next, Comes with Music to counter iTunes, N-Gage to counter mobile gaming, sticking with underpowered platforms that performed poorly - later rectified with the N8 and going forward - Nokia didn't really help themselves in those years following the iPhone or Android ascension.

There's a lot of other factors, but let's just not mince words. OPK's reign set things up to where they had to counter, evolve and change their ways - from marketing to media, and it didn't happen fast enough.

Ovi Store is a success. But it's eclipsed by Android's and iTunes mind share. Comes with Music was a failure, Ovi Music is also. It just wasn't a name that people outside of Europe flocked to. But I speak on that as a North American.

Regardless, a lot of these messes were in place before Elop, all he had to do was come in, assess with a very biased eye that what was probably repairable should be seen as a problem and propose that Windows Phone 7 has an ecosystem that more people will get behind (XBOX Live, MS Music, MS Video, et al) and the other things that Nokia had been working on were not ready for primetime, even if released, it would require too much work to get it to where it would be a viable platform... and he "looked" right.

That's my take.