After all, we got all that Nokia could deliver.
They were good at designing hardware, but as
the industry revenue making shifted towards
software, they were struggling.
From 2007 until 2010 they didn't have any financial
or whatever restrictions to develop a next generation OS beyond Symbian, and options like Maemo were already in place
but they just failed to execute that properly.

Then in late 2010 the US based investors noticed this weak
moment of Nokia and arranged behind the curtains this deal.
The rest is history.