So you rather Nokia to make a non-mainstream phone which sells less? If you had Nokia shares or if you were the CEO instead of Stephen Elop, you would be thinking the opposite I assure you. I still wish Elop pushed Meego more, but he obviously had MUCH more information about how it is now and its future much better than we did. So we can only assume his decision was best for Nokia. (even if we, as a consumer, disagree)

N900 sold fraction of the amount of N8 which, to us, is a much inferior device in many many ways. N900 was also promoted with integrated IM by the way. It was the first phone ever to have integrated skype video as well. You obviously don't know N900 very well. If N900 didn't have a keyboard and was made more "non-geek" like, most likely it would have sold way more and we might actually have had more support. (such as full OVI maps for one)

I'm also in favour of having a hw keyboard. But if the hw keyboard version is inferior in terms of rest of the specs, I will most likely buy the non-hw-keyboard version still to ensure I get full experience of what Nokia intended for the OS.