But your tongue-in-cheek detector is malfunctioning.

I’m well aware I pulled a George Bush when bringing up the Microsoft “salvation” of Apple. There’s a good chance that I mistakenly bought into press propaganda at the time and stored it rather than doing my homework. Mea culpa– and at least I can admit to an error, “fecklessly” or otherwise, unlike the hateful little Master Baiters here.

It’s obvious that Apple’s approach continues to work in spite of a sour economy, and I’m VERY impressed. Apple and RIM together have stolen the US smartphone market from Nokia in toto and are making more money on less product. That’s highly admirable.

I had hope for my former employer (and when I say I was let go without cause, Victor, take it to the bank) but that hope has all but faded. Nokia had the ball and fumbled. They have apparently lost the advantage of that global market share and may not be able to leverage it after all.

This is a sad lesson many companies SHOULD learn from the failure of others but do not. I watched Stanley Tools piss away market share and WILLINGLY give the high end to Snap-on. Corporate suicide, because others began chipping away at the low end and now Stanley is not the brand they were even a decade ago.

Nokia is following suit, allowing a fatal sense of superiority to possibly doom it. Oddly, Apple suffers a similar arrogance but has channeled it productively.

Highly focused wins the race. I’ll concede it.

I just hope the angry turks in the peanut gallery are gainfully employed, growing up and enjoying life. ;)