... and they have a plan.

Battlestar Galactica
was the most suicidally depressing scifi every screened,
Nokia smartphone strategy seems like it was taken
straight from a cylon planbook.


Big noises with lots of shattered and abandoned product lines
drifting across the smoke-clogged skies of markets destroyed in treachery.
People trapped in hopeless places watching the inevitable
knowing that they were led into disaster by placing their
trust in those who had agendas very different than advertised.
Hauntingly scripted burials of still-viable equipment so like watching
living people being herded into airlocks to be artistically
flushed into the star-flecked beauty of a cruel vacuum.
Leaving behind at every turn someone cherished for their
competence or loyalty to face certain death as punishment for
a faith betrayed.
An impossible goal far beyond the boundaries of known space,
trying to find the lost myth of a product which needs no firmware support.

The only thing missing is a Bear McReary ringtone.

Whoever dreamed up this transition strategy from
Maemo to Meego should have their line Boxed.