In Europe Lumia has to be sold with free xBox or super-cheap bundling deals by telcos which are subsidized by Nokia. Sales fall flat without incentives or subsidies.

Elop deceived the Nokia Board by saying MeeGo will not be in time to save Nokia. But the N9 was released 2 months before Lumia.

N9 is the first Nokia phone in a long time to excite so much consumer interest. What would happen if Nokia had fully backed MeeGo instead of trying to bury it alive? Nokia may be in a far better position than now with their fate firmly tied to WP7, an OS which has been rejected by consumers with a 1.5% global market share