I'm a bit puzzled about all this death talk.

Isn't Nokia a ginormous corporation that sells the most phones in the world?

Even if they'd totally loose the high end market, and have, let's say, half of themselves left, they'd still be a huge phone manufacturer globally and only half dead (or less?).

But, for the record: I hate that they're in bed with MS. Really going for MeeGo would have been sweet. A real linux OS on a phone (as opposed to other OS:es that have a linux kernel, that I might mention) was too good to be true?