Excellent points. The only people who seem to be screaming for Nokia to ditch everything for Android or WP7 are certain American Tech journos/bloggers, who are very blinkered.

I really don't expect Meego to be dumped by Nokia as they are too far down the road with it. I think over the next 13-18 months meego will crop up everywhere. I actually expect to see the likes of HTC release Meego handsets.

Elop's key point for me was how the industry has clustered around the ecosystems in the last 2/3 years with the iTunes/iOS devices and Google/Android. Whilst Nokia has Ovi which is doing well, it is not yet slick enough or compelling enough for a lot of people, even on Symbian^3, which surprised me to be honest.

One of the key challenges for Nokia is to polish everything surrounding Ovi up, and get everything working out of the box with it, and with anything else which may be needed.

Make no mistake, if Meego gets enough market penetration, Google will offer their systems for it (such as mail, maps etc) as they are a marketing/advertising corp, and want as much data as they can get to analyse and push products and services (ads) to. Android is just an Ad platform like google maps or mail. More user data means more and better targetted advertising, and more cash for Google. Google don't really care about what OS or phone they use.