Symbian share in the US - a minor market compared to Europe, India, Asia and even Africa - is not a good indicator of Nokia's sales. Not even for the last 5 years.

I mean, seriously... Nokia hasn't sold 2% in Japan in ages - probably hyperbole, but close enough since Nokia has a minor presence there and does no advertising there.

Anyway, it's high time to eschew your egocentric ways and see that the US market was never going to be enough to "save" Nokia. And referring back to Symbian, a minor player in the North American market isn't helping your point. It's enforcing that Nokia didn't invest in those areas because they didn't want to engage with the monopolistic carriers and still without doing so, held the mobile crown for 14 years.

Simply stated, the US market is too small and too controlled by AT&T and Verizon to be something worth anybody's time that plays by their rules. Sorta why it was cool to see Apple play by their own rules and get away with it, and how Samsung didn't fall to the prior SGS whims of the US carriers and create multiple versions of the same phone.

Instead the SGS3 is basically one version for all US carriers. They've gotten that much traction in this area.

Anyway, stop using the US market. Look at the world market. Symbian's been on the decline since 2007 basically.