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Originally Posted by daperl View Post
So, now my numbers exist in five different posts, or would you like me to elaborate some more? Sorry if I'm a little rusty, I stopped spoon feeding my son almost a decade ago.


Originally Posted by Lumiaman View Post
A whopping 5%!!!! Daddy, you actually are splitting hair. Your numbers still go along with what I was saying. The stock kept sliding pre and post Elop at approximately the same rate. People had no confidence in Symbian and didn't have confidence where Elop was going. Bursts all those Tomi A lullabies how great Nokia was pre-Elop. Daddy, you need a time out.
But, no matter how you do the math, he DOES burst your own point that what Elop did would/could/did save the company from being any worse off by going Windows Phone.

Originally Posted by daperl View Post
Uh oh, facts too much for ya? Wouldn't it just be easier to admit that Nokia got Microsofted? And here we all thought Finland was smarter than that, but sometimes there's nothing you can do when the mob comes knocking.
But... but! Specc told me it wasn't so! Remember? In that old, closed-out Nokia stock thread (which, by the way, I think was a baseless and stupid thing to do to quash open discussion and speech--glad they learned or decided better this time):
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=1872

Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
+1
Fun to see the fighting
And so MUCH of it too!! Gonna need a bigger bag o' popcorn for this thread!


Originally Posted by Cue View Post
Hell I'll be impressed if somebody does a moving average let alone real market analysis some of those drawn lines are terrible. Lumiaman can you at the very least admit that you were wrong. Admit the windows phone strategy failed badly after 3 years of you saying "just you wait, turning around the company takes time Elop made the right choice not using taliban phones"?
He doesn't have to admit what we ALL knew. Even Balmer knows it deep down somewhere.

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