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Originally Posted by ndi View Post
Oh, yeah, they were doing great before Elop, market share was up, Maemo was supported, Meego was finished, Symbian wasn't an old, simple OS, Nokia was doing revolutionary work and design.

Before Elop, every single phone Nokia put out was revolutionary and not a copy-paste of other phones with another button on top.

The sheer revolution of having a button that starts Media Player warranted the launch of the X-press Music line. Until then, people had to start their player by pushing a physical button. The X-press of it all!

In fact, Steve told me he was about to sell Apple and use what's left of their company to buy a box of matches. Google wanted to dissolve Android in a vat of molten metal.

Then Elop came along and it all went to hell. In 3 months.
http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia/fin...al-information

"In Q4 we delivered solid performance across all three of our businesses, and generated outstanding cash flow. Additionally, growth trends in the mobile devices market continue to be encouraging."

Look at the figures and you see what I mean. Yes they've lost "some" market share in the smartphone segment but MeeGo/Qt was supposed to fix that in the near future. Why the heck throw that away before it's even released? I don't get it and probably never will.

And yes, Elop destroyed Nokia in three months. Nokia the new Enron.
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But the WM7 "horse" has a blood lineage tracing back to donkeys such as WM6.5, 6.1, 6.0, 5.1 that was fully neglected for too many years and Microsoft did sweet F all to maintain it (still running on Pocket IE4/6!!).