I said that Nokia lost here AFTER Elop, not before. When I was creating my startup (mobile game developer) in 2012, market research showed that Symbian still h

I said that Nokia lost here AFTER Elop, not before. When I was creating my startup (mobile game developer) in 2012, market research showed that Symbian still had 30% of new sales (and what increased was not iPhone, it was cheap android), and 2011 they still had healthy sales here. It was not the announcement that killed Nokia here, it was the fact that no new phones showed up here anyway, people wanted to buy it, but there was nothing to buy, lots of early Android phones here used Nokia design on Purpose, and Sony Ericsson here made their initial foothold using Symbian (when they finally switched completely to Android, the interface partly copied the one it had on Symbian... I own a Xperia Play, and my mother own a 2011 Symbian Sony phone, and they are surprisingly very similar to use).