I agree with this guy and Rafe Blandford. Yes, Feb11 might have influenced things, but its hardly the primary reason for the decline.

My prediction is that Nokia’s share will drop to low 20′s and stabilize as WP is phased in. I believe that WP will be reasonably successful but wont shine until 2012 when the release after Mango will have added functionality and total Nokia integration with Maps, and the rest.

I hope that Nokia produces a range of hardware which is really innovative and packs more functionality per price point than all the competitors.

Combined with a huge marketing effort from Nokia, Microsoft and others that should stabilise things and maybe start increasing share.

I really hope Nokia puts the N9 interface on top of microsoft’s interface as much as possible, because I think its beautiful.

Then a combined microsoft/nokia ecosyetm with maps, music, video, vouchers, NFC payemtns, email, contact management and things we haven’t even heard of yet should be as compelling as anything Apple or Goolgle can come up with.

Oh and I really wish microsoft would allow Nokia to port QT, or someone else, to windows.

Having said that I still want Nokia to produce 1-2 Meego phones as well as backup with full services.

If they can do all this then I think Nokia will start gaining share again, because I also think they will produce the best hardware at the moment and long into the future.

Apple is the only one who is anywhere near close to producing the quality of hardware (in some areas) that Nokia can when you combine materials, camera, connectivity, screen, etc etc. Nokia is king there at the moment and should allow them to keep an edge.

But heck, what do I know?

“Any way when I said a stopgap measure I mean that Nokia wont be using Wp7 forever are they ? ”
Sure. Then what’s the point. No need to respond, it’s a rhetorical question.

“Mobile tech moves fast, in a few years most OS’s currently on the market will become irrelevant, we will have moved on to the next thing, thats why the next disruption Elop talks about is as important.”
Elop should first deal with the needlessly IMO self inflicted current disruption.

What am i talking about again? It’s the cycle of life…

Any way when I said a stopgap measure I mean that Nokia wont be using Wp7 forever are they ? Mobile tech moves fast, in a few years most OS’s currently on the market will become irrelevant, we will have moved on to the next thing, thats why the next disruption Elop talks about is as important.

I don’t recall saying anything of the sort. Can you refresh my memory by pointing me to a post from me saying so ?

Your argument is that the switch to WP7 could be a stop gap measure.

I pointed out that I believe it would be lunacy to wreak havoc for a stop gap.

You can believe all you want, you are entitled to your opinion but I am not going to believe in such nonsense myself. If Elop is devaluing Nokia so Microsoft can buy it, then well he doesn’t have to because Nokia’s value isn’t that much today anyway. Microsoft could buy Nokia today in cash if it wanted to why wait to destroy it ?

In fact if you believe everything you read well HTC will buy Nokia next year so yeah you might be right.

That’s madness. Completely disrupt the sales, the stock price, the staff morale, a part of the userbase, the profits for a frelling stop gap that *is* sweaker than the current product.

All that devastation for a stop gap !? That’s complete insanity.

In other news, the burning platform is having its swan song with some further expansion of its app store.

http://www.stocksandshares.tv/nokia-corp-nysenok-sees-app-store-expand/32010290