So, then, you didn't read the rest of my message that addressed that issue completely? (it's up to the designers to provide style guides and reference applications which conform to those style guides, so that they are setting the bar of expectation of the users, to which 3rd party developers must rise and beat if they want their apps to be successful on the platform)

When Nokia provides those style guides and reference applications, such that you don't need a keyboard to do basic tasks, you don't lose the screen while entering text on a virtual keyboard, and such that developers know what the app ecosystem expects of them, then they can take away the existing UI elements. Not before.

That or they have to do a combination of relegating their device to a particular market segment, designing around that segment, and getting someone who can seduce a crowd the way Steve Jobs does to do the introduction and hype for the device.

Anything else is just going to produce a half-usable device that no one is happy with ... and we'll all end up moving to Android and Pandora (both of which, btw, have keyboards).

(and, android doesn't seem to be having a ton of trouble getting people to develop very touchscreen oriented apps while also delivering a keyboard... I think someone's thesis is flawed...)