I can see how an iSheep would twist that article as proof that Apple is better than Nokia.

There are so many omissions in those few paragraphs that it does not really explain well enough that during 2004 and 2007 Nokia was in full production with multiple handsets and OS's, creating new technologies in not just a fancy UI and creating App stores but Telephony services with other large organisations (ie Motorola & FCC) where they were consultants in 3g technologies as they were previously with 2g. These are just a few examples that they were working on in a global scale back when the iphone was still a dream in Steve Jobs's head, so of course Nokia's R&D would have been vastly greater than Apples.

Now when Apple came along, they were just building on existing tech and they did it bloody well. But they did not have to put the same out lay down like the old players as the technology had already been created. Apple just concentrated on streamlining and bringing these tools together, which was a successful move for them.

As for the articles comparison to last years R&D profits and losses between both companies, lumiaman appears to have conveniently forgotten every single piece of Nokia news from the last 14 months post the burning platform memo just for the sake of an idiotic post.