I'm pretty sure the people who created the phone expected such a response from TMO, it's not as if our tastes are not known. I'm almost positive that's one of the reasons (moving away from NIT) why so many in top management at MeeGo left Nokia in the past year.

I find it much more ironic that outside of TMO, especially the big tech sites, this MeeGo phone is getting so much praise, being a Nokia phone.

Considering the ecosystem, and all. Maybe it was even a stroke of genius, giving them something negative (Nokia moving away from MeeGo as the phone is released) to talk about so they could actually praise the phone itself.