Sarcasm is the only way to discuss about this painful subject. I was using the same method to refer to those Nokia employees siting on their *** waiting for Elop to pull the chair from under it and make them kill their babies.

Respect to those few that have opened their mouth to speak out during those burning platform (how dared he use that metaphor while there was this terrible corp greed induced disaster by BP still ongoing) and internal Lumia speech to "leak" notes but now I can only hope that the fighters went to Jolla and won't quit till its 2010 again.

About Pureview ore equivalent gone forever: I really would like to know: was it not said that Nokia could make phones if they wanted after 2016?

I'd rather see them make smartcamera's that can call but if it means they have to start from scratch all over I think they are going to be late to the game indeed.
Might be that they had their next in line concepts at hand waiting for new lens / sensor / CPU options tech to arrive.

One of the lead Pureviewers went to Apple indeed so we may soon (in 3 years) see the iCam rise again.