Microsoft kills what's left of the old Nokia

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It's really interesting how quickly a once dominant name can implode so quickly. See Blackberry, PanAm and other companies. Seems no company is safe from becoming irrelevant in only a few years.

>> Last week, Microsoft sold off what remained of Nokia's feature phone business while Windows Phone's market share slid below a single percent.

Surely that's impossible! The enthusiasm on geek news sites when Win Phone 7 came out was immense! And then again when it was basically entirely scrapped for 8! Surely all of those developers telling us it was the best dev environment and best user experience ever, months before even a review release was available, couldn't have been shills?

The sad part of all this is that Nokia had lost their way around the time of the acquisition, but they still had huge market share and huge potential. Had they had a new CEO that wasn't the world's most obvious MS plant, they might have been able to rescue themselves and get back to greatness.

I counted the MS takeover as being a done deal from the moment Elop was announced, they took it over from the inside and destroyed it. I just wish I knew why.