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by cdud3 15 days ago
To add to that: Elop announced the end of N9 weeks before it's release and more then a year before the first Lumina was available. Dead on arrival not even shipped in major markets. Yet the N9 was years ahead any competition of that time.
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Exactly, and it sold really well despite that.

It was Kafkaesque, discontinuing a product before release.

Elop knew what his job was. Sell Nokia to Microsoft.
And he effectively killed the last EU platform. Will we ever see another one?

I miss these simpler times when devices were made to serve users, and not the other way round.