Yes, beautiful hardware. From time to time I fire up my one remaining N9. i even reflashed it. pretty phone. looks cool. yet it lags, stutters, email doesnt update, sms threads get mixed up, abominable web browsing. Its like a pretty retaaard, all dressed up but nowhere to go. That refers to all of the scrapped phones. Elop had to step in stop production of retaaards.

quote "Elop had to step in stop production of retaaards."

and yet he failed so badly ...

rgds

the first Lumia line up is less than a year old. I wouldnt cast judgment yet. Jussa had 4 years to develop Harmattan and see how it badly failed.

Did that just go over your head on so many levels?

rgds

Level 1- Symbian needed to go to thrash. It finally did. Good riddance. Great when there was no competition. When competition rose, it was outcompeted.

Level 2- Maemo. Great idea, horrible execution, horrible delays, no one knew who was in charge. Nobody championed it to get things done right. Since 2006 they could not compete with iphone. Fail. Elop rightly axed it. How many itinerations you need before it stares at you and says: " I am just not competitive"

Level 3- it took since 2008 Jussa to develop Harmattan, fail. Few fanboys left in the world that love Harmattan, but overall a fail. It can not do the basics as smoothly as other platforms and fails on many levels. And it was supposed to succeed Maemo 5...that is just utter incompetence. Funny that I say this: google Jussa Jolla...see what pops first

Level 4- faced with incompetence at NOKIA, Elop aborts retaaards (Symbian, Maemo, Harmattan), and goes for a working platform, WP8

Level 5- WP8 succeeds, fine. It doesnt succeed, Elop axed, NOKIA has to go with Android or Jolla succeeds (less than likely given Jussa pedigree), and NOKIA buys JOLLA.



How many levels did you miss?

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if you put S40 into the Symbian bracket, it still is...

Now is this good or bad

Yeah, I guess I am wrong to put S40 into the Symbian bracket, but I do. I've always considered it Symbian Series 40. But it isn't Symbian, sorry. I keep forgetting. Especially now as the features are leaking down.

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For Nokia, this can only be bad. It means Windows Phone isn't selling enough. For poor people in the 3rd world, it's good.