While both your statement and my response are gross oversimplifications, I would point out that when Elop took over, more people were buying Nokias than they are now.

Q3 2010 (when Elop took over): 110.4 million Nokias sold Q3 2013: 64.4 million Nokias sold

Parsing your statement, if when you said "no one was buying Nokia phones" you means "no one [in developed economies] was buying [Nokia high end smartphones]" you'd then be correct.

Pedantic reply is pedantic :)