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>> Such a shame trojan horse Elop tanked the company by partnering with Microsoft

> I have heard this statement so many times and I feel it doesn't justify the truth

To me when people talk about the Windows Phone being great they are talking about the hardware. Which is something Nokia used to excel at. I have a Lumia on my desk and it is a really nice phone, its the lack of the latest Apps that lets it down.

Elop failed to leverage the software developers at Nokia, you had great Qt/C/C++ developers and suddenly the company is Silverlight/C#?

The biggest mistake I attribute to his management was his announcement that the phones they were just launching would not upgrade to Windows Phone 8. As a buyer you are just going to wait 6 months, that killed the sales channel and App developers decided to hold off.

I don't think Elop was a trojan, I think he was out of his depth or the wrong man. The board should never have appointed him. But he did tank the company through a string of bad decisions.