I don't know where you are from, but in Europe in the countries the N9 was sold, Nokia had to officially proclaim that they would support MeeGo in the future. They did this because of all the rumors of death. IMO all these local Nokia officials did this in good faith. To be fair, Nokia has not said that they will not continue supporting the N9. I don't think the problem lies thereeither, the problem is that the N9 don't sell, the same problem the Lumia 800 has.
Nonsense. iOS and WP are not even close. Bada 2.0 and Belle are definitely close with full copy and paste between open apps and so on, but the implementation in Swipe is a bit more elegant. ICS is also close, but farther away than Belle and Bada.