Goodbye Nokia! Mission accomplished Elop, you have destroyed Nokia and return back to Microsoft (fastest collapse of a industry market leader in the history of mankind)

[JimmyDanger]

And the reason they went with WP over Android had everything to do with being able to fully utilize their assets.

Remember these guys were doing mapping/navigation since google were just a search engine. In addition to other services they'd set up and maintained. When they became the biggest handset maker in the world they didn't spend all that money on cocaine. They've invested billions in network services and infrastructure - they invented the smartphone remember. To go with Android - and be enforced to use googles maps/services, rather than their own - would be unthinkable - basically burn half the company away. For nothing.

This way - the services half remains - 5 billion richer.