Hintry, how were you able to make it through the Ahonen piece? He rambles worse than I do. He was also dead wrong earlier, and his new piece completely lost me at this....

"Now the really silly part is to bleed all that profit in those three OS platforms. I will not be the first to say this, nor the last, but Nokia needs to kill off its OS platforms more quickly than that. Its now a journey into futility. Nobody believes in Nokia OS platforms anymore, they are the walking dead. Why develop them? Why maintain them? They now are only a drain. And those colleagues at Symbian and MeeGo units - shift away as soon as you can....
Which brings me to Microsoft again. Can you see the parallels? This is like Microsoft who owned DOS (that was overwhelmingly bigger than the Mac OS), and was about to switch to Windows (which would be equally much bigger than Mac OS years later) - and six months before Windows was to launch - and 90% of its development was complete - suddenly abandon it, and go with Macitosh OS instead.. I said on this blog a few days ago, that a change away from MeeGo and Symbian would be a decision by a psycopath, and I said it in jest because I could not see it happening. I am certain this move by Nokia will be seen as one of the classic biggest blunders in technology history...."

Huh? Which is it? Kill them off or don't kill them off??? He, like so many posters here, also refuses to acknowledge the reality that MeeGo is in no shape to step in (per his flawed analogy regarding MS "about to switch to Windows").

My favorite commentary was Microsoft and Nokia announce my dream partnership so why aren't you all happy? because while everything else published everywhere else and posted here has been either gloom and doom or ultra-heavy speculative analysis. this calmly listed all the strengths and advantages of Nokia phone hardware and explained all the strengths and advantages of WP7 software (which I wasn't familiar with before).

Your second link was awesome however, and explained all the crazed reactions to this. It also seems like a moving story to me... two rivals, fighting each other, both sides suffering, then realizing that time has passed them by and their glory days were allegedly behind them, now seeing a darker, evil, common enemy on the horizon, and deciding to team up together and battle one last time as allies against two juggernauts. It makes me misty-eyed. It's like a battered Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader teaming up to destroy Emperor Palpatine! Meanwhile in my mind it sounds like everyone else here is saying that if they waited a bit longer the Ewoks would have come and saved them. Maybe I've just read too many posts here today....