I find these sorts of things (chewing over previous decisions) to be rather painful and less than productive. I'd much rather talk about solutions moving forward since really, that is all you can do. I'm all in favor of figuring out what information or skill might have given you better insight in the past but that's really as far as I would go there.
Nokia's bread and butter has always been 'feature' phones, and that is something they really can't afford to give away. One strategy I could certainly see them taking would be to start with Android, replace the user land part with an application to run a feature phone, and push the footprint of that software down to allow for the least expensive hardware to run it.
Then leverage the core competence in the Android kernel to create the best of class kernel for a Nokia branded 'smart' phone.
I do wonder however if Elop is the guy to push such a strategy.
And do what with it? The transition is happening too fast for that. Nokia was always the one to push features down the stack (S60 to S40) but ZTE can do that cheaper with Android. The reality Nokia never saw was that Android is two systems, 2.x is S40 and 4.x+ is S60. Both run on a Linux kernel and run basically the same apps, with games running better on newer hardware.
Nokia's bread and butter has always been 'feature' phones, and that is something they really can't afford to give away. One strategy I could certainly see them taking would be to start with Android, replace the user land part with an application to run a feature phone, and push the footprint of that software down to allow for the least expensive hardware to run it.
Then leverage the core competence in the Android kernel to create the best of class kernel for a Nokia branded 'smart' phone.
I do wonder however if Elop is the guy to push such a strategy.