I tend to think
I do feel some sympathy for Elop - there were definitely no good choices left when he arrived.
Having said that history shows us of all the options he had - he chose the worst, everyone else from Blackberry to Sony are bleeding red ink but still in the game - unlike Nokia.
Maybe time will show that the survival of Nokia the parent company was far more important than Nokia phone company - but the jury is still out on that one. Sony's fate in particular is worth watching.
Burning platforms was a cockup of Gerald Ratner proportions though.