I think Nokia's marketing group know a thing or two more about selling phones and operating systems than you do. MeeGo will do okay for itself - while I feel the interface is boring right now, obviously each manufacturer is going to code up their own stuff to make it interesting and worthwhile.

Now, seems like nobody else called you out on this, so I will.

In which universe do you live that you can say 3 million odd units (talking about the N97 here) shipped amounts to a failure? You, sir, have no clue what you are talking about. 10 million 5800's sold.

If you believe the stats, it appears Nokia are shipping about 300 million handsets each year, give or take a handful of millions or so. I think their bank account is pretty healthy myself.