That guy probably doesn't even know that Windows Phone didn't even exist on the market when Elop arrived at Nokia, and if he does know than I don't know how to read that than - they should've embraced Windows Mobile when Apple released the iPhone - in which case Nokia would be gone by now.

That being said, WP SDK was finished on September 16, Elop became a Nokia CEO 5 days later. He couldn't send the `burning platform` memo the first day he arrived, he would be kicked out right away even if the BoD wanted him to gut Nokia. It took some months to prepare the stage and strangle the opposition before his coup de grâce. With hindsight, I am totally convinced that it was his intention to turn Nokia into a MS subsidiary from the day one - no other logical explanation for some of the moves he made, especially the cancellation of S^4, reclamation of the Symbian Foundation (he couldn't pass them to Accenture without first owning them, nor he could completely kill the S^4 plan without it), returning the dubbed 'first MeeGo device' to the drawing board...

Oh, well, since we're talking here about the stock price, and the stock price being one of the best measures of a CEO performance in a publicly owned company - the performance of Elop is downright criminal. It has nothing to do with what system they've chosen to go with, I hypothesized they'd be going the way of the dodo even if they chose Android instead of WP, with the same execution.

Elop was brought in to fix exactly that - execution. And 'fix' it he did - he executed Nokia quite expertly. Bravo, sir!