I clicked onto the link of that and the first sentence was wrong, so i stopped. Nokia was already a sinking ship before Elop took rein, since the end of '08. Smartphone market share then barely began, and Nokia didn't start into it till much later, hence the fail; and at that time, they still churning out phones that weren't smartphones, thus the decline in market share as smartphones take dominance.
speculations from here on out from turned iPhone 5 upgrade to the Lumia 920.
They announced the phone on Sept 5, before it's actually ready; hence the whole Pureview scandal. the reason for doing is is to lured those who were on the iPhone 5 bandwagon to get off the ride, by introducing innovations into the phone. that's how they got me. i waited and waited till the announcement of the iPhone 5, and i was seriously underwhelm. the "revolutionary" i5 was just following after the the GS3 which was released months back; and tho it won against several aspect of the GS3, its functionality was still crap in comparison.
The long wait for the Lumias are killing it right now. along with those that doesn't want to wait 2 months, as well as the announcement of several other phones, and the *****slap of a move to sell the 920 exclusively, brings a huge cloud of skepticism to the phone's success. but seriously, Nokia wont fail due to this.
Granted, the exclusive deal with ATT is a bad move, considering the US is a pretty big determinant of how a hero phone is going to thrive. but Im glad that Nokia did it, considering ATT was the only carrier who gave a crap regarding the WP, shows that Nokia has some empathy. this is a company that actually pays its customers a crap($100 each due to the software issue with the purple line) instead of spouting 'it's normal' or 'ur holding it wrong.' so the short term exclusive deal with ATT is like a gesture of thanks from Nokia for sticking with them, even tho the L900 failed to make a big splash.
And tho the Lumia 920 is exclusively that of ATT in the States, like a poster above me stating that Nokia landed a deal with the world's biggest carrier. in China, i think there are 3 parts where the high end smartphones are in dominance, HK, Taiwan, and Singapore(not sure if each is its own country.) the rest of them are of the midrange or lower tier smartphones, where Nokia can eat them up with their 820. the problem here is that Samsung just announced the GS3 Mini, which is kinda like a *****slap to Apple if they release the phone as a possible midrange phone (the understood gesture 'we made a 4" phone too, and it's dirt cheap comparing to ur **** with nearing the processing speed.') If Samsung decides to release this phone as a midrange phone, then Nokia's hope of eating up the market share in China will be for naught, unless they release an 8XX with just the same amount of power. the Lumia 8XX line is a really big determinant of Nokia's survival.
Regarding Elop's decision, i cant say crap since im not in his shoes; but we all know that if the upcoming phones doesnt make it big in the coming months, he'll be canned for sure. so...maybe selling 2 million Lumia 920 is good. if it fails, Nokia will still be fine for maybe 2 years, even with the constant decline in market share that is.
All speculation aside, if Nokia goes down, i'll be gladly remain aboard the ship with my red Lumia 920 in hand.
Ohh, and imho, Nokia with Android wont work well, as they'll enter a fight against a giant that is Samsung with last i check, ~80% of the android's market share. then again, im kinda bias since i just want Nokia to just focus on WP. I like the "single minded determination" sort of thing.