Comment by joe_mamba

What does MS have to do with this? The Nokia factory shuffling and strikes GP was mentioning happened before MS took over.

And people love to blame MS but Nokia was a sinking ship already by that point. MS was just a new captain added to steer the Titanic but the same fate was inevitable, as its home grown MeeGo/Maemo platform arrived too late and to too little adoption to stand a chance against the already established iOS and Android platforms who were throwing infinity money on becoming the undisputed mobile duopoly platforms, selling 10x as many devices as Nokia was selling Maemo N900s. It was already over for Nokia by that point same as it was for Blackberry. Nokia's own engineers admitted this the moment they got to play with the first iPhone at their Espoo HQ.

That's like blaming a drunk driver for hitting a guy that previously shot himself in the head.

Nothing MS could have done would have changed that fate for the better. WHat did people expect MS to have done?