I'm not predicting the end of Nokia, I'm saying they made a huge ****in' mistake on this one. The gist of it is that they gave up their future POTENTIAL.

Long story short. They gave up their chances on meaningful differentiation, now it's about who makes the most bad *** hardware and sells it the cheapest. Lower margins -> bad for Nokia.

Digital content sales grow FAST, smartphones grow FAST. Digital content on smartphones will be BIG. Nokia gave up their chance on monetizing on that. Now they're just the platform through which that money will flow to Microsoft.

Those two are the things you DON'T want to give up, and Nokia just did. This is a gigantic win for Microsoft and a huge loss for Nokia.