N950 has 512MB RAM according to all the specs I've seen so far (don't remember where right now). Perhaps this was changed still, but I doubt it.

N9 has 1GB of "true" RAM of course, no swap cheating.

Also, whatever you think about Elop, he seems pretty keen on the N9. Of course it's a tough situation, but from his point of view the N9 both shows what Nokia is capable of, and what we will see in future devices. He just doesn't want us or everyone else to forget what Nokia's long-term plan is... And I can't entirely fault him on that, as frustrating as it can be.

With the developer program, the marketing of the N9 so far, and the attention it gets on developer.nokia.com, I really can't complain about a lack of effort though. You can only do so much to support application development for a dead platform, but I think that Nokia is doing it.

Also, "dead" is probably not the right term anyway. It is dead in the sense that there won't be major updates of the OS for customers in the future, but for developers the platform is far less dead thanks to Qt and Nokia's plans with it.