Did you buy any Nokia N series in the mid 2000, or a communicator earlier? Those products ruled the smartphone world up untill a couple of months ago. I guess the answer is no, no you didn't purchase one of those revolutionary (for it's time) products, I guess you didn't even know they existed. If you actually did purchase one, then we're somewhat OK. But it is off the point concerning the N9, here and now. Early adopter of Android and iPhone, but not willing to support the N9 due to a few hundred bucks, only tells me you don't really care all that much about open source and Linux and Qt, it is all words, no action. Qt is continuing on S40 by the way, as well as on PC and many other places.

Microsoft will obviously do all the marketing for Nokia, as well as Samsung, HTC LG and SE. Nokia has already lost, Microsoft cannot lose this time, this is it for them, or they will be gone from the mobile OS scene for many many years. Still the N9 will be sold in a much larger market than Nokia-WP is, and it will be reasonable priced. The prices are already dropping from the early high prices we have seen until now. Even if WP should, in total, reach 20-30% market share in the US, the number of WP-Nokia sold will be dwarfed compared to the N9 in absolute numbers.