Nokia is a hardware company first, server/content distributor second. The whole Maemo/MeeGo development within Nokia have always been half hearted, a side show that so far has lead nowhere. Symbian was thrown upon Nokia, and Nokia didn't know what to do with it, so they got bad advice (seemingly good at the time though) and open sourced it. The only real Nokia strategy in all this was the purchase of Qt as the platform for the UX and apps.

Nokia does not have the strength to develop and maintain two OS'es. Symbian is going well, despite what bloggers with their heads too far up their asses may or may not think (or hope). But maintaining and developing the core Symbian OS takes a lot of resources from Nokia, resources they would much rather put in Qt/UX, apps and OVI, RT OS and low level programming and development of hardware subsystems, or core Nokia technology.

There is one company that can help Nokia right now, and by accident that company also need help from Nokia creating and producing some killer hardware that will sell in Europe and NA. That company is of course Microsoft. There has been some talk about Nokia/MS cooperation some time now, and one can only speculate what this is all about. My bet is that we will see some peculiar integrations and constellations of Symbian/Qt/WM7/OVI/MS in 2011-2012. It may come in any shape or form imaginable, and unimaginable, but IMO a key element is MS taking over the responsibility of the core Symbian OS. OK, eggnogs may have an impact on the fantasy but just think about it. Together they would be much more than twice as strong, and in 2011-2012 they both need to be no less strong than that.