What? That was Nokias golden years and culminated with the N95, E71, E95. They had it all and pioneered in everything we take for granted today (GPS, maps, good cameras, 3G etc, even AMOLED), then came the iPhone and later Android and Nokia has ever since behaved like a headless duck.

Samsung will be untouchable for a long time to come. They are the most complete consumer electronics company since ever. Phillips, Sony were similar but not at the level of Samsung. Samsung would have passed Nokia anyway, Nokia just made it happen sooner. Samsung lacks software though. Good software comes from China these days, and that is where next gen OS's will come from IMO.

I think people here overestimate the (potential) impact of Maemo. Looking at Maemo from a objective perspective, it headed in the wrong direction from the n900 on. It should have stayed on tablets and Nokia should have developed software and HW in that field. Nothing is wrong with Maemo on a phone per se, it was simply a lost battle from the start for anything but a niche product. On tablets it could have shined and captured a large market share before Apple came. In hindsight that is the only way Maemo could have been something other than dead.