Why should meego be a dead cow in the grass?

iOS was a unborn child several years ago. At the beginning attracting only the hardcore Apple fanboys... and after they have bought it and showed it to their friends and family the userbase grew.

MeeGo / Maemo / WebOS is mostly attracting Linux freaks and fanboys.

But, are there today more Linux users, interesed in buying a Mobile device, than Apple users 4 years ago? I would say yes.

I see there a huge market in the future. But of course, not for my mother or my 56 year old neighbor. But Series40 is still at the stores, or not?

The people, tastes and use cases are quite different. And so the devices have to. I don't want WP7 and also Android. And I would prefer to use Symbian again over iOS. But I wouldn't pay more than 150€ for a Symbian Phone... 800€ for a Maemo like MeeGo Device and I would still ask where to buy?