Actually Nokia are making a huge profit without NA.
It's companies like Motorola who are suffering losses in NA, and this is probably due to a combination of poor carrier attitudes, plus most consumers only want to pay US$20 a month and get a free phone, a set of steak knives and a salad spinner.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys!
Even "Third World" countries are financially more attractive to Nokia. That's not ignoring NA; it's focussing on where there's a decent market.
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