What seems apparent to me after reading and reading and reading ...and then reading some more...
and what we all understand from being on the maemo receiving end of things...
and of course being able to view the issue from outside looking in...

The business execs were doing exactly what they were good at.
Being business execs.
Looking out for their own asses, pushing agendas, enacting internal coups, back biting, back stabbing, starving one another of the ability to focus on issues at hand....
Oh the list goes on.

The author plainly has opened a small window, onto the panorama unfolding, and thinks himself separate from it...but that is the furthest thing from the truth.

They all did well to do everything possible...BUT show solidarity to a vision and stick to it, and work together, and achieve and maintain it.
Else Iphone and Android wouldn't have stood a chance.
And Nokia would still be at the forefront.

They were absolutely perfect executives.