Samsung is a well-run company, very successful and even THEY know a loser when they see one. Nokia--Not so much.

OHNO! Tell me it ain't so! Somebody was able to replicate Nokia's only advantage??? Noooooooooo! hahahah.. Nokia is placing all the wrong bets and all of its incredibly fragile eggs in the same basket. You didn't seriously think that Swipe was going to make Nokia uniquely favorable?

Even with the N900, it doesn't fit in very well as a phone. As you correctly pointed out, it was never designed from the beginning to be a phone OS, it was and still is far better suited to an Internet Tablet form factor, not a phone. As a phone, it falls behind miserably and has problems--particularly compared to most of its competition. As an Internet device or a portable ARM-based Linux computer, it's great though. I've yet to see N9's being reviewed by reasonably critical reviewers who don't have some kind of self-interest involved in telling you its flaws... so we'll see how the N9 works out in practice, if it ever comes out.

Something about that number doesn't seem right--and it also doesn't take into account the time Maemo and Moblin existed beforehand... from which MeeGo came from. Nevermind that Harmattan is more Maemo than MeeGo.