Comment Re:Easily explainable: Nokia (Score 2) 371
They wiped the visible parts of the CE slate clean, but it's still the CE kernel. They needed to keep the CE guts to get the phone to market when they did. If they had started fresh, they wouldn't have made the same design compromises with the CE kernel that they did years ago. IMHO, Apple made some very smart decisions with iOS, especially in power management features. It's amazing just how much of the iPod/iPad/iPhone gets shut down when idle or doing something like watching video. I think Apple's heritage as a hardware + software company gives them a big advantage over a mostly software company like Microsoft or Google.
As far as Nokia and RIM are concerned, I really don't understand how they have managed (and continue to mange) to do almost everything wrong.