Nokia CEO: Apple "created the conditions necessary to create Android."

Apple created the condition for Google to seek an "alternative" OS they can have more influence. The reason the Browser and Flash was so popular because devs can control the content and delivery method.

iOS takes this control away from others and created a void for other OS to allow more control. At the time, Windows Mobile 6.5 was no good enough and Android was at a good time to garner interest.

Had Apple licensed iOS to other phone makers, Android would've got nowhere.

One company does not create, single-handedly, the market. Crediting Apple for the Android market is as nonsensical as crediting Sprint/AT&T for broadening the cellular market to begin with. It's just a move to sensationalize a story by involving two competitors.

Secondly, how does the length of the Android OS relate to the open policy of the code? What do the "box flaps" he refers to actually represent aside from his personal opinion and buzz-word imagery? OS developers are 100% used to large sources. Just ask anyone who has worked on Ubuntu. (Or any other *nix base, Ubuntu only provided since it's well known.)

I don't really see any point being made here. Just terms being thrown around by an opinionated and ignorant 2nd rate cellular manufacturer.

Let me first say I am a hard core apple fanyboy however I think he has a valid point he definetly did it to get head lines, I still think it is lame android copied the pinch to zoom and inertia scrolling coming from a palm treo600 you can really see Apple pioneered it and as open as everyone says Google is they are really starting to show they are a business and not some champions for open source and I am sure we will see more in the near future.

Its so funny how u all have this one wrong. (THE HISTORY LESSON) The major swing towards Apple was the Itunes store and the apps that apple offered for a small price. Apple made getting music easy and the US consumer was ready to have its music served to them on a silver platter. The mistake Apple made, as it could have taken over the world with the Iphone, was that it only offered its prized iPhone on one carrier. AT&T doesn't make alot of people happy, and the service provider exclusivity made alot of people not go for an Iphone, then here comes Android. Not only is android running on a multitude of devices, it’s also offered on a multitude of carriers. There are all types of exclusive android deals, you get a good phone and its discounted from a service provider, and this is where NOKIA has failed. Do you all ever hear of discounted NOKIA devices when you sign up with a service provider? I sure dont, and this is why NOKIA is losing. And then talk about dropping napalm on a gas station, NOKIA makes an announcement it’s dumping its home grown mobile operating system, and will only use Windows mobile OS, BUT no devices will be available for at least 12 months, ok then why make the announcement now? Go figure!!

It's just Apple's business model. (which is, I imagine, similar to Nokia's.) Apple writes software for the sole purpose of selling hardware. That's it. That's why Apple doesn't care to license iOS on other devices, that's why you can't install OSX on a non-Apple machine.

Poland caused WWII by just being there...
C'mon - this is just dumb. This guy is looking for an excuse as Nokia's market share is going down

"Apple created Android, or at least it created the conditions necessary to create Android People decided they could not play in the Apple way, and they had to do something else. Then Google stepped in there and created Android... "

Ummmm... no.Eric Schmidt joined Apple's board in August of 2006, just as Apple was completing the design of the iPhone. Google's own internal smartphone software project, which had been developing since its 2005 acquisition of the Android startup launched by former Danger executives, quickly shifted from an effort to clone the functionality and design of existing BlackBerry, Palm Treo and Windows Mobile devices into being a copy of Apple's distinct iPhone design and user interface.

Then Apple released the iPhone on AT&T in 2007, and the rest of the industry had no other option but to buy into Android if they wanted to sell something -- anything -- that looked like a competing product. Windows CE didn't cut it. Neither did Palm.

But what "made" Android was Apple's five year exclusive deal with AT&T. That gave Android time to settle in and become the smartphone of choice for Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile customers.

So yes, Apple created the conditions that spawned Android. The rest of the timeline according to Elop is simply flat out wrong....

Along the same lines, will Android be esponsible for destroying Symbian ? A better strategy for Nokia would have been to start carrying Android on their phones, so they can have a Closed phone with an open OS (if that works for Nokia). Mr Elop, how different are you from Apple now? Windows CE has been around for ages, Even Nokia phones have been around for ages. Marriage of convenience never works in the market. History has shown that older companies have always created revolutionary products in collaboration with newer companies. You cannot keep a TV on a typewriter and call it a computer. Mr Elop, enjoy your perks while it last.

I don't think iOS being "closed" had anything to do with it. Apple created the conditions for Android by creating the iPhone and not licensing the software. If other companies wanted to make a similar phone (and why wouldn't they?), they needed software.

So (1) Apple substantially raised the bar but did so in their closed ecosystem. (2) Android came along and produced a similar function only more open. So what does that make Microsoft? (3) late; (4) closed; and the real challenge will be whether (5) is "better" or just 'copycat".