The latest iteration of that burning platform, Symbian Belle with QT and PIPS was already quite an improvement, Symbian was getting quite good, being open sourced, with everyone slowly moving away from Symbian C++ (uggh) into Qt/PIPs.
Paralel to that N900 was shapping up quite well, also using Qt as part of its SDK.
Being asked to throw away their Symbian Java and Qt for Windows 7 pure .NET SDK was what made the large majority abandon ship.
Naturally Elop was just driving Nokia into the position he could benefit from his compensation clauses given to him by the Nokia board.
Paralel to that N900 was shapping up quite well, also using Qt as part of its SDK.
Being asked to throw away their Symbian Java and Qt for Windows 7 pure .NET SDK was what made the large majority abandon ship.
Naturally Elop was just driving Nokia into the position he could benefit from his compensation clauses given to him by the Nokia board.