Then why didn't it bury the iPhone? Because the majority of users don't care about these things. They want to pinch, pinch, pinch a billion widgets on capacitive touch screens (even if they don't know what that means). People were quite content buying stratospheric amounts of iPhones even when they couldn't change the wallpaper (or copy/paste or multitask). Build the world's fastest sports car and make it look like an old station wagon and no one's going to buy it.

There's a WP7 major update pretty much already finished but coming in March that addresses many of these issues (including copy/paste). That's a lot faster rate of improvement than Maemo has had. Nokia needs Microsoft's software engineers. Period.