I own Nokia stock. I own Microsoft stock.

And I also like facts. What's so hard to understand?

Here, I agree 100%.

Actually I do care about sales. It tends to lead to further development and sales. I honestly think that the Harmattan team deserves to be given a fair chance to develop this UI into something further.

I don't disagree with most of what else you said. But I fear that you've not taken the time to understand my stance.

I speak about sales as a validation tool for two things - not to counter the iPhone 4S sales, Apple is having it's heyday right now. That ebbs and flows between whomever is popular. Give it another couple of years, it'll be somebody else. But for a long-term strategy, I don't see how WP7 fits Nokia. I can see how Symbian did fit them, got them quite a bit of traction actually.

And just imagine having something that was once ahead of the game, like Maemo and Qt, and letting it languish because you lack the foresight, then you have to fall back on the facts. Not opinions of how Qt is the "best ever" or how the "N900 is the best ever" - no. Those are opinions. But what if you fell back to stats of sales figures that look impressive enough to continue funding.

You cannot argue results. You cannot dispute facts.

That's the takeaway. Nothing else stated really matters. I'll argue specs all day with you. I might even know a couple of things about what I'm talking about (not likely) - but if I hear that "Device X" sold 3 million in 1 month, even my peanut sized brain knows that's a helluva lot of devices and that will mean that my gadget of choice will receive an update to either software or hardware.

Facts in this case would be beneficial. Opinions are standard fare around these parts.

Bonus points for using MF DOOM in a reference.