Nokia say Android is like peeing in your pants for warmth

I asked and Nokia have responded. Nokia CEO Anssi Vanjoki has been riled up by all the talk about Android on their phones; and probably claims that Android will hit 30% smartphone market share by 2014. According to Engadget:

mobile manufacturers who go the Android route are doing no better than Finnish boys who "pee in their pants" for warmth in the winter

So there you have it.

Nokia need to go Android

Nokia N8, with an OS that only its mother could love

I noticed that Nokia have turned to a Microsoft guy to try to revive the company's fortunes in the smart phone stakes. The only way that Stephen Elop can turn Nokia around is to embrace Android. Having spent years demonstrating that they can't develop mobile software, they need to bin Symbian and concentrate on making great phones again. Something they used to be able to do, but seem to have forgotten all about recently.

If they are going to hang onto Symbian, go open. Let the development community rebuild it and make it work. It is the community that makes Apple and Android strong, although in Apple's case it's more like a cult. Nokia need fanboys and fangirls to help it come back.