mrojas:

I understand your points, and they are very valid.

Actually, why Nokia screwed up in the first place is said by Ari Jaaksi well: they were unable to market their OS as a platform instad of a single product.

This single sentence does explan LOTS of stuff that they've done.

About Eldar and his stuff:
His N900 review was actually a very good one (later on, he wrote a Maemo review, too), and he quite liked it.
It seems that someone paid him a "little" money to change his opinions. (He is an influential reviewer after all.)