How can you look at what's happened to NOKIA versus what's happened to Samsung over the last two years and say Elop did the right thing? It's patently nonsense. He didn't have to publicly deprecate Symbian and MeeGo and he didn't have to exclusively adopt a PROVEN FAILURE of an OS. The resulting crash was inevitable. Samsung must have spent the last two years laughing their socks off at NOKIA's meltdown at the hands of Microsoft's Trojan horse. The UI was not part of Symbian, it was a layer on top. Most of the things Symbian gets criticised for are not actually part of Symbian. Qt and QML would have made revising/updating/customising a UI a much quicker and easier process. NOKIA's pre-Elop plan was much more sensible and much more likely to succeed than Elop's absurd Windows Phone fiasco. Incidentally Metro (or whatever it's called now) doesn't seem to be a particularly popular UI does it? There's nothing NOKIA can do about their 'Taleban' UI now, they're no longer in control of such things thanks to Elop. Pre-Elop NOKIA were a profitable company with growing sales and a sensible path to the future even if they were travelling along it too slowly. The catastrophic mess we see now is entirely Elop's doing.