&gt;Nokia needed a better operating system for its phones to match Apple’s iOS<p>I strongly disagree. Symbian just needed a few optimisation, which it got. It got them too late, but it did. Maemo&#x2F;MeeGo was probably more capable than iOS is today. And what exactly are those &quot;quality problems of N95&quot; they speak of?<p>Nokia was indeed wounded by incompetent management, but Microsoft was the one who stepped in and finished the job.