Pretty much dead on, most people here understand this concept.

I think there are three different categories of (smartphone) users:

1) The real techie type (developers, programmers, Linux dudes), some people on this forum are.

2) The 'think' we are technical group, no programming experience but reasonably technical.

3) The not so technical users, 'oh I like that phone' or 'shiny shiny....' group.

Obviously there 3 > 2 > 1. Every company wants group 3 & 2, but none can survive without group 1.

It's group 1 (and possibly parts of 2) that will look past the spec! It's only group 3 that might say something along the lines:

I want a good camera so 12mp is bigger than 8mp, so i'll buy that. Not realising optics play a bigger role than megapixels.

And unfortunatley it's GROUP 3 that makes the most business sense, everyone here is saying I want the phone to do this and that, but Nokia does not really care too much about you/us, because we are in group 1/2!

Which is why Nokia have gone with MS, group 1 generally don't like them, but group 3 know nothing other than MS and Windows. Thats the way of the world. I'd love it if the N9 turns out to be a mass market device - and I expect it to outsell the N900 by a long shot, it's slimmer, sleeker and hopefully way better spec'd. But that remains to be seen.

Just remember it's group 3 thats gonna pay, so you need to make group 3 happy!