Because Linux makes hardware integration easier. NOKIA were also planning an orderly migration from Symbian to Linux (MeeGo / Meltemi) using Qt as the bridge. Whose memory doesn't serve them well? They did plan well even if they were tardy executing it. Pre-Elop NOKIA had an exciting future - MeeGo, Meltemi, QtQuick, Pyside, the best mapping software available, a rapidly expanding app store, strong brand recognition across the world, a strong market presence in China (now the world's biggest market) and China Mobile, the biggest carrier on the planet, were on the MeeGo working group. They were very close to getting all their ducks in a row, there was absolutely no need for panic reactions. Announcing Symbian dead a full year before having anything to replace it with and then exclusively adopting a weak, unpopular, fugly OS were Elop's contributions and NOKIA's collapse is the inevitable consequence of it. Plus of course he killed MeeGo (after calling it 'the next disruption'), he killed Meltemi thus destroying NOKIA's chances with 'the next billion', his catalogue of incompetence goes on and on and on...