It s funny indeed but also risky. Ok, Nokia didn't choose to throw the N9 on the german market. But a big local electronic store had one N9 to sell.
I often prowled around this device, to get my hands on it from time to time before buying it. But when i watched other people laying their hands on this device, it was always the same picture: they lost interest after a couple of seconds, because they couldn't get past the lockscreen and well, it seems that most human minds loose their will to explore something when it get s "difficult" right from the start ^^

I think, that simple obstacles like this can seriously affect sales numbers, just because it s not the most obvious way to handle a cell phone and people are lazy and want out-of-the-box intuitive stuff when comming to electronics