Ahonen *may* be right as well as wrong, but many of his points were extremely selectively nitpicky.

The problem with the "burning platform memo" is that it *sounds* legit. Remember that in the media perception equals reality, and the world's mainstream media ran with this memo.

Broadcasters like the BBC are believed to try and verify "news" before it comes out of the megaphone every half hour... and in that case the Nokia HQ would have easily said "it's a hoax".

We, the good Maem^^eeGo people *know* that the platform has been burning for some time. Now the masses and businesses worldwide "know" the same thing.

Whatever Nokia announces at the "Capital Market Day" (or wtf ever obscure happening they chose for this presumably upcoming announcement) won't do much to repair the damage caused - some would say deservedly - to Nokia's image as a mobile communications leader.

I haven't spent much time here recently trying to keep up with every knife-twisting turn (or lack thereof) but having followed Maemo since the pioneering 770 tablet came out and then lurked and eventually joined this forum when I finally managed to buy the N800 and having seen Nokia ignore so many blindingly obvious suggestions and observations by our trend-setting group of willing guinea-pigs... how the **** did they manage to squander all that headstart away!?

PS. Over the years I've had direct communications with a number of managers (as a small fry with grassroots perspective), some in companies bigger than Nokia in their heyday, and I've never been so totally ignored than by the Nokia/Maemo people, despite having spent record time building a solid case.

Finland's famous flat hierarchies apparently don't apply at Nokia!...