good lord. seriously?
I'm not a fan of nokia, but i don't have any ill will towards them.
pardon me for using a dinosaur of an analogy here, but m$ trumped apple the first time over by creating the backbone, and letting the hardware makers do their stuff, but the success grew because the platform was open.
Sure, they could have more control of their product now, but they are trying to play Apple's game. Why would you want to play their game? That's what they are good at!
Go do what you're good at? Building something that we want to use, and we want the backbone for.
I absolutely cannot stand pretentious software that thinks it's too smart for itself. Example? New windows live messenger.
Anyways, sorry for the tangent, I don't see this working out for Nokia, at all.
If nothing else, it only strengthens Android's position.
Yes, I'm an android fanboy, but if you see my earlier comment, i think more open competition is better.