I wonder with all the money and prestige Apple had invested into the Iphone why did it fail to sell?
Well, unlike the software industry where the large companies have been content to knock out the same product with a little more gloss each year, those Finnish phone companies have actually been innovating for the last 15 years or so.
If Nokia had acted like EA/Adobe, etc., they'd basically be releasing the same phone but with a slightly larger screen or a slightly higher resolution camera each year, instead of creating new ways of using and interacting with the phone.
Multitouch mobile phones have been around for years, and most people already have Nokia Connect accounts with tonnes of MP3s/Downloaded Programs that they've already bought for their old Connect phones. I still play a game I bought in 2003 on my Nokia 7650, and I can listen to a track I downloaded in 1999 on my 3210 (16Mb memory! 4-5 tracks! eek!).
You can access the Nokia social networking/instant messaging stuff on an iPhone but only through a 3rd party app.
Apple have been losing market share in droves since those funny Microsoft adverts with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates. Did you see the one where they're trying on shoes?