Comment by joe_mamba

>As ex-Nokia, I can tell quite a few stories about the rampdown in Germany, of factories and R&D sites, merge with Siemens and what not.

Well please go on, spill the tea, don't leave us hanging. This would be very interesting to hear.

>For those that care, search the news for strikes or layoffs, around the time iOS/Android were taking off.

Well, according to my google-fu, the factory closures from Finland and germany were relocated to Hungary and Romania, so still EU, therefore the EU could have maintained a domestic phone manufacturing sector in its lowest cost countries as well, if they had kept those fabs and not close them down as well to move everything to china.

Everything about this screams of corporate greed and mismanagement on Nokia's part, way before Microsoft entered the picture.