They have said it it’s much easier to work with the Linux Kernel than with Windows CE for getting drivers integrated. You can kind of see this in the plethora of platforms supported by Linux vs. windows Phone (1). And this includes baseband and modem work.

So I think elop is wrong here (at least badly miss informed)

First I am pleased that SE has decided answer questions.

I respect the fact that he has a very very difficult job to do and hope that he is not put off by the “passion” shown on this site and makes further appearances.

Read this and other articles (i.e. Bloomberg) I understand where he is coming from.

I agree that the iPhone has created a vacuum (currently being filled by Google’s Android) but worry that he is preparing his troops for an outdated battle.

I believe that the vacuum will get very small and very hot once Apple decides the lower the price ceiling with new iPhone products. They have done this before in the digital music market and have great economies of scale. Suppliers will give them large discounts, distributors are falling over themselves and the operators are living in a climate of fear.

I am afraid by the time Nokia’s WP7 product comes to the market it would be over.

The biggest mistake Apple’s competitors (including Microsoft) have made was not to provide innovation that consumers want. On the most part their products are evolutional steps forward which now rely on differences using expensive hardware (bigger screens, faster processor, more memory etc). Others have come up with a abstract system that is further away from how consumers use their phone (not an easy five minute sale in a phone shop).

Think how successful the Wii Console was with a clear innovation difference to the XBox and PS3.

Customers don’t buy phones based on echo systems. On the most part they walk into a store and ask for the brand that they see as “cool”. And currently that is Apple. Otherwise they ask for a quick demo. If they connect to the design they buy. If they have to learn a new abstract system, that sounds like hard work, they move on.

With reports that 1/3 of new customers will buy an iPhone 5 without even knowing what it is says it all. People are guessing how the design will be and know how the iPhone works. No detail abstraction just technology making things easy.

I believe that the N9 has/had potential to be Nokia’s cool device. It’s UI follow’s Apples line of using technology to make it easy to use the phone. I know it sounds simple to do but believe me it’s not.

I am afraid that Nokia WP7.5 phone will be lost in the noise as one of many that did not learn this lesson.

And as for eco systems Microsoft will need a WP8 to allow for seamless integration between phone / tablet and PC’s. The big problem here is that once announced it will kill the WP7.5 market and further anger any WP customer left with another dead WP platform.

I may be wrong. . Big time.

SE maybe right.

But I think that the odds are very much against him.

Yes, you send a mail to a nokia.com mail id and get a reply and you call the person a troll? You are using the term too liberally ( I am not sure if you even know the meaning anymore. Just like using the word “gay” these days) and by the original meaning of it, it is you that is the troll.

I bothered to comment only because this blog is good, and Jay has done good work.