Of course, Symbian was not winning. It was on a downward slope.

The whole point that Tommi is making is that this is a lie which was spread by various people. Symbian was actually increasing market share very slightly at the point that Elop stopped it. The mobile phone industry was increasing in size and the smartphone part even more so. This meant that Symbian revenues were increasing greatly. Even Symbian profit was generally showing reasonably well. Tommi gives clear and verifiable numbers to prove that.

There was a perception that Symbian would start to lose in future. That was probably right. However a) that is something which, given time might well have been fixed and b) it wouldn't have been a problem to let Symbian die a slow natural death, selling only phones which were profitable.

I find it very suspicious that something which is so clearly and verifiably untrue is being spread so widely. This has a very clear dangerous effect of allowing the Nokia board not to investigate the success of current strategy since they can claim that the old strategy was failing anyway.

PJ; maybe you could do some ant-FUD on this? I know it's lots of financial details but you have shown before that you can get the volunteers to help? The numbers are in Tommi's articles, though you have to be careful with his treatment; he's not a statistician and sometimes he e.g. uses too few points to show a trend.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]