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And Nokia started making pulp and rubber in the 1800s, I don't see what that has to do with my point.

Nokia's rise started in 1990 when Ollila, who had been the mobile phone lead, was promoted to CEO. This was still very early on (Nokia's first GSM phone only came out in 1992) and a large part of the fief war was driven by the legacy telco people being unhappy about the upstart mobile people now calling the shots.

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> "I don't see what that has to do with my point"

The point is that Nokia was in the telecom sector for DECADES before the Microsoft acquisition of the Handset Division you mentioned.

> "and a large part of the fief war was driven by the legacy telco people being unhappy about the upstart mobile people now calling the shots."

Citation needed. Equally I have no idea what that has to do with my initial point that the device business was used to drive the infrastructure business.

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