I agree nokia or for that matter any company is in the game for making money for the share holders. I also believe there is a right way of doing things. I personally think i can relate with nokia. Nokia is always modest with its products. They try to bring innovation by the user. They do not believe in clamping their products even though they may lose market share. I think these qualities are inherent in the Finn's. I am not saying that is the right way or the other way is wrong.... but i can relate to nokia, because even i am similar. Some of the good things i believe nokia is doing are:

1. Thier foray into open source and contributions upstream
2. They brought symbian and made it open source
3. They always include any damn feature they can include and never clamp down thier devices.
4. They do not charge for firmware updates.
5. They try to wrangle control from the carriers and give it to the users.


All these things they never had to do and they still do. Combining a phone with a service provider will definitely have increased thier share in the US by a great deal. There is no doubt about it. But they chose not to...Now i dont know why they did not choose to combine with the carriers but since it is a no brainer i think they want to prove something to the North American market. I may be wrong but i do not see any other reason for what they are doing in the NA market so i assume what i believe. If you have a better reason i will be glad to listen.