I was kidding before, though it's true for some cases, anyway. My apology.

What you quoted is exactly where the controversial is.

Gartner did not state clearly in their disclaimer what exactly the statistics for operating systems are. It's impossible to count the licenses sold, as you may know Maemo has no licensing term of royalty as in Symbian.

Some guess that they use no. of unique IP that were accessing to the repositories. Again very little evident has shown that Gartner requested the Nokia to give the actual figure accessing their repositories, and Nokia obviously would not compile in giving such statistics.

So what exactly is the statistics and where do they come from? I personally think it's out of thin air as usual. Just in my personal opinion anyway.

I wondered if the predicted sales figures would be favourite to Nokia if they've not been cooperating with any business analyst in disclosing sales figure in the first place.

Anyway, I personally don't mind if N900 was sold less 10K in the first 5 months; if it's really the case, I'd even feel rather privileged in having a N900.