[PugetSoundSoldier]

If you want to talk US only, then yes I’d wholeheartedly agree that Nokia is way back in the pack. But it’s a global market, and sales are all over the world. And when you look at that, Nokia simply dominates.

They know they are stagnant now, and need to get it rolling, but they have a MASSIVE lead right now, and even if it takes a year or two to get something going, they can afford it.

Consider this: Apple has sold about 50 million iPhones, ever. Over 3.5 years of sales. Nokia does that in about 2 weeks. They have a HUGE lead in market share, and that affords them the luxury of reacting slow. Not every time, and I’d say say these articles are a bit hysterical, but they do need to get the MeeGo platform going in the next 18-24 months if they want to maintain their serious lead in the market.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"But it’s a global market, and sales are all over the world. And when you look at that, Nokia simply dominates."

Apparently no longer in Taiwan, the US or Europe, if the very recent articles I just posted are any guide.

Where, then? If, as you concede, Nokia's has performed a swan-dive in the US, but this is somehow not representative of its true global might, then what regions sustain it, if Taiwan the Asian powerhouse and Europe the Nokia back-yard are fading fast for it?

I wonder, are we still talking smartphones? ...I only ask because I'm having real trouble reconciling your contentions with reality. Why the panicked reorganization, then? Why the decimation of their stock price? Might you be the only cheerleader they have left?

Seems to me you're clinging to that one table from May, in the face of several data points that suggest something different, at least for smartphones people actually pay for.