How come this comes down to a discussion about iTunes or iPhone and profitability?

On that one only has to look at the PC business over the past few years... I think Nokia did and concluded that a closed OS married to specific hardware at first attracted a lot of market but eventually lost out to a user friendly closed OS that ran on user configurable hardware. In the end however a user friendly Open Source OS is the one that continues to grow.

Nokia sells phones.


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I hope this guy does well in whatever he does for Nokia. Whatever it is, it will not result in short term radical change of anything, imo.
For me, using the "positive paranoid" concept that geneven recently introduced me to, this means that Nokia believes that this Maemo thing just might "take off" and give them a rare chance at an OVI store "do over". Perhaps they want people with experience in position now so they do not miss any opportunity..