http://source.android.com/

Android has roughly 50% market share of all smartphones worldwide on all charts I can find, more if you count tablets and is gaining ground on ALL competitors.

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=android+worldwide+market+share

Fairly clear you must agree and this can only be as a direct result of its openness as a platform allowing such easy take up.

It looks pretty conclusive to me.

The only way to compete against this tide is to be "More Open" (tm) and since this is only break even in the opensource software arena Nokias only chance now is to be "More Open" (tm) in the hardware arena.

This much is bleedingly obvious to anyone with half a brain cell outside of Elop fans.

rgds

ps. Simply put Microsoft can't win, tactics like blocking 3rd party software with stuff like secure boot on PC's for instance etc only work if you are in the dominant position which in smartphones they are not and without a clear value proposition which they do not have they are just yesterdays news.

pps. Their adverts are also really really lame, I cringe everytime I see one. click click look silly click. ooo I can take photos with the brightness turned up ooo. oh dear.