Peter Burrows, reporting for BusinessWeek, on Nokia CEO Stephen Elop addressing 2000 employees:

For a moment, Elop, 47, lays into the complacency he sees settling over the company. When he asks how many people in the crowd use an iPhone or Android device, few hands go up. “That upsets me—not because some of you are using iPhones, but because only a small number of people are using iPhones. I’d rather people have the intellectual curiosity to understand what we’re up against.”

He’s absolutely right. And this is something of a contrast to Ballmer’s iPhone snatch/pretend stomp a while back, reported by the Wall Street Journal. Mind you, it’s also a change of heart for Elop himself. From the WSJ article:

Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft’s business division, used Apple products before Mr. Ballmer lured him to Microsoft in early 2008. But at a meeting of Microsoft sales representatives after joining, Mr. Elop placed his personal iPhone into an industrial-strength blender and destroyed it

Yup. That’s a great way of figuring out how to beat the competition: see if its products will blend. At least Elop’s grown up a bit—the question now is whether Ballmer will too.