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And Elop burns another platform. I've lost count at this point.

This is the THIRD round of major layoffs Nokia has gone through since 2011. I feel bad for my former colleagues.

This is a bit of a bad sign. It means Microsoft won't have their own AOSP-based product. Android apps and ecosystem elements will always be second priority, no matter what any management claims. This makes it less likely that "mobile first, cloud first" actually means something different from "devices and services." If Windows Phone fails to gain altitude, it will drag the rest of the strategy down with it.

It isn't just that Nokia X is dead. This says they're killing of all of what use to be "Smart devices" - which is/was the feature phone division. So that includes the Asha series, etc.

Mobile Phones was the feature phone division. Smart Devices was the smartphone division.

All an academic point since now they're just going to be "the phones division"