Don't blame Elop for OPK's problem.
When Elop got on board at Nokia, Symbian was dead in the water. Sure, the Android was gobbling up most of the market, and by that time even the Finnish didn't care.
They sat on the smart phone and didn't push it because ... ? Reasons? I mean, the Symbian developer program was a huge mess too.
The iPhone shouldn't have upturned the market the way it did, if Nokia was capable of executing from an engineering point of view.
Not to say that they didn't have capable engineers, there are a lot of things that can hamstring engineering teams. In this case, I think it was managerial dysfunction that kept Nokia from being acquired.
Not only that but Nokia's profitability was on the downswing since 2002.
So, I think Nokia was doomed before the smartphone revolution hit.