A shockingly glib and shallow post.



Most importantly, Samsung had already surpassed Nokia by the time of Burning Platform; Nokia had none of the necessary pieces in place to compete in either high-volume or high-price phones. (Samsung controlled high-rez screens, CPUs, memory and manufacturing.)



Further, had Nokia been able to turn on a dime, they lacked the functionality that the Google app store provided. Many apps don't need it but the most valued ones, do.



Finally, even after Nokia's commitment to Windows Phone, rogue groups within the company continued to undercut the strategy. The PureView cameraphone was released utterly incompatible with Windows. The linux alternatives persisted. Both squandered internal resources AND presented a confusing message to partners & customers.



Nokia was killed the same way that other leading phone brands — Motorola, Palm, Microsoft and many more — were: by the disruption of the 32-bit touchscreen internet phone and the free Google ecosystem. Even Samsung, the putative winner against Nokia, is now facing the identical disruption from later entrants, exactly as disruption theory types would have…no, actually DID…predict.