Too much drama. The lack of market share in the US has been a thorn in the side of Nokia for many years, so many years that it has become infected. Based on sound business principles, Nokia has overreacted a bit, but it is difficult to see a path without WP. Banning the N9 clearly is part of this overreacting, but still it is understandable. All confusion about Nokia is now gone. The Americans now get a streamlined product series, which quite frankly is the only thing the americans understand and can relate to.

The previous MS marketing campaign was stupid. "come, get this super high tech new platform that is so high tech it is low tech. You will not even notice us" People don't want that, they want to be blown away with advanced technokogy that is FUN and easy to use. In addition the hardware was of abyssmal quality.

WP will surely pick up momentum this time. All the major phone manufacturers are in for the ride, and this alone will kick jump the sales.

Too bad for americans that they will never again get any of the more "experimental" stuff, the cool stuff from a geekish perspective (MeeGo, Bada, Qt, Symbian, new S40, the new chinese Linux phones and so on). IMO it suits them well, they get what they deserve with their draconian operator rules and the worshipping of fanboyism as a religion.