Why can't they get this **** straight before launching the device?
Nokia's livelihood as an ongoing business essentially depends on the success of this device, yet they continue to flub everything about it.
I'm just completely disappointed. If this is their best effort, then they deserve to go under. Kudos for Microsoft for having a backup plan.
Hey, no one said Apple deserves to fail simply because it has had to polish its products post release. (And as a user of iOS, I can attest to that).
Another way to see it is that it takes more than one or even two product cycles to recover from obsolescence. Time is a limiting factor here, and if you don't have enough time to polish your product, it's better to release a product that you can polish along its lifespan rather than lose another product cycle.
A lot of people are going to complain that Nokia has already had 2+ product cycles to catch up, but given how much it's bleeding money, and how they chose a platform that itself was under a strict deadline to catch up to competitors, I'm not entirely surprised that there are still kinks. Keep in mind how ambitious Nokia has been. It decided to bring an entirely new camera technology, when its closest competitor on this platform (HTC) merely decided to transplant a camera technology they had perfected in a different platform. So long as there's no problem with the hardware itself, I don't mind patches and updates to refine feature points.
Let's put things in perspective here after all. What Nokia has tried to do in two product cycle, its competitors have had the pleasure of doing in twice that amount of time. All said and done, I've personally found Nokia deserving of another lifeline and some benefit of the doubt. If they need to polish their product a bit post release so be it. After all Nokia has had a strong history of supporting their products throughout their life cycle.