Why would anybody think of them as clowns because of it?

- a dev device wouldn't count as a regular device, so just one Meego device would be available to the public. The dev one would just be "new old stock" of an unreleased device being put to the devs as a lat pat in the back before the goodbye.

- it would make them look better "look, since we are nice guys, we hyave ans extra MeeGo device here. So stop hating on us"

- Plans change, Nokia said would stick their guns with Symbian - until MSFT come and put every plan down. What was said in the past, is past.

- Nobody even care about that old "one device talk", so nobody would notice