Now here is a much nicer message from someone who used to oppose my discussion of alternatives such as Lumias and iphones..name removed for obvious reasons:

"Hi there,

Never thought it would come to this but I have used my black Lumia 720 now for one week and am extremely impressed!
Owned 2 N9's (first one for almost 2 years now) before but find the simplicity of the Lumia awesome. The battery life easely doubles that of the N9 and that, together with the Gorilla glass 2 were the deciding factors.
I am writing this as a PM as I know the Maemo/MeeGo community keeps on ridiculing Nokia's move to Windows.
As I am not a gamer the so-called shortage of apps doesn't worry me as all the really useful ones are available.
Enough for now, I don't have to convince you right?"

Interesting that once you try it you may like it