>>From the other thread: let the pants fall, bend over.
LOL. The fact that the market deserted Symbian despite its previously dominant position seems to suggest that people are not cattle to be directed, they can make choices. However, MS's and Nokia's expectations seem to be the opposite. Their expectation is that shared dominance can counteract the market preference for other devices. That hasn't worked out for either of them so far in mobile, but perhaps the combination will do the trick.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
