Ah, the ol carriers will just shove Windows Phones in peoples pockets and push them out the door strategy!

But weve seen this picture. Back in April, one of the Cassandras of Wall Street huffed some fumes in the cave where they commune with the flighty and vengeful gods that control the stock market and declared that because carriers were going to turn to Windows Phone in 2012.

Hows that working out so far?

Oops. And, let the Macalope get this straight, Elop welcomes Microsoft shipping its own phone?