The problem with Nokia isn't just that they've failed to execute on all of their various platform plans but at the same time they've fallen behind on the *hardware* side too!

The old-school Series-Sxx candybars are what keeps some revenue still flowing in but they've simultaneously ignored the maintenance and development of that key platform...

The idea of upgrading the headline-grabbing N-series Internet Tablets into an affordable first-class product line as cooperative and symbiotic "companion devices" for Symbian phones (with proper data/function integration) - with crucially early entry to market and to create developer- and userbase! - while at the same time designing those ultimate high-end tablet-phones... I guess it's getting too late for that. Other manufacturers don't have the existing userbase to take advantage of so there have been no attempts at coming up with fantastic new basic phones that seamlessly integrate with an affordable multi-user tablet, but it saddens me that Nokia hasn't even been able to come up with the goods separately...

The side-tracking jump to the MeeGo train with the x86-pushing behemoth never made sense to me but I could see that platform as rescueable. Another side-tracking jump into the arms (no pun intended) of yet another struggling behemoth (and one that is obsessed at *owning* their proprietary platforms) would for me be the end of it.

My currently rather uneducated opinion is that Nokia could still soldier on with its own platform and services *if* they can focus increased engineering efforts towards it and if they actually know what they're doing.

However their best chance of beginning to regain some marketshare within a year or two would entail deep and successful cooperation between the various genuine Linux-based platforms (in order to get developers on board). Nokia is no longer in any position to dictate terms to anyone, but if the genuine Linux-based platforms remain separate and fragmented (wrt. developers and app-hungry masses) there will only remain two advanced mobile platforms with *mass-appeal*.

Edit: I deserve to be shot together with Nokia's board for being late with my totally useless answer...