Yes basically the same thing happened to companies that made CP/M machines, something better came along and they couldn't innovate to compete with it. IBM made the PC, and Microsoft made DOS and DOS was easier to use than CP/M. Then the PC Clones came along and clobbered the CP/M computers in price. CP/M computer makers had to either convert to making PC Clones or go out of business.<p>DRI filed a complaint with the DOJ along with many other companies against Microsoft. DOS had copied too many of the CP/M patents, simply moved some commands to memory and renamed them. Pip became copy for example. DRI tried to compete with Microsoft with DR-DOS, but Microsoft checked for DR-DOS and made Windows fail when it loaded on a DR-DOS system. Had to use IBM PC-DOS or MS-DOS or Windows wouldn't work.<p>Both Apple and Google came up with the next generation smart phones around 2007. Google's Android was basically the IBM PC and PC Clones of the mobile phone industry anyone could license it and make phones based on it. Apple's iPhone was the Mac of smart phones, easier to use and configure. Nokia was like CP/M not as user friendly even if it was reliable, and didn't have the apps that the Android phone the iPhone had. They also didn't have the developers either.<p>If management changed at Nokia to have tyrant managers who have to control and micromanage people that's basically what Steve Ballmer did at Microsoft and it was a disaster. A consultant manager who empowers employees to make their own decisions and creates a better environment with the carrot and the stick instead of the buggy and the whip can be more productive and lead to better products and more innovation. It is the employees at the assembly line that know more about what is going on than the CEO up in his/her Ivory Tower on what decisions to make to improve things, a CEO should only manage things at his/her level to run the company and not bother with the low level stuff that employees can handle and might actually be better at making decisions.<p>I have to say that almost the same things happened to RIM/Blackberry and Palm, even if they had smart phones before the Android and iPhone, they just didn't get the apps they needed nor get the developers on board for making the apps. Social Networking apps took off as did free to play mobile games.