the biggest change would be the outlook... LOL most of the ppls around me are amaze by the N9 striking outlook... 

LOL... what?? ur friends been cheated by nokia b4 huh??? they all seem "hate by brand" LOL... 

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Added on October 18, 2011, 12:12 pm

don't you know the nokia office only have <10 employees to handle all their business?? 
they're extreme BZ ok... 

Not Nokia hater, just that Nokia's image is a little staid, not for young and trendy now. It's like those who won't be caught driving a Volvo. This will actually work against Nokia's WP7 phones succeeding. Nokia is delusional if it thinks their brand name will give WP7 platform a boost.

I won't say doing something right, it's more like the penetrated the market right and know what people wants. What I don't like is how they change the perception and how people see smartphones, and influence some manufacturer to follow its trails, scaling down the OS, removing features, adding restrictions, etc. (e.g. removing Flash support)
If you have tried Maemo, it was an amazing OS, one of the closest to true mobile computing, there's Desktop, support for Full Flash, true multi-tasking, etc. While iOS is like the complete opposite, it doesn't want users to interact or know any of that stuffs, it prefer simple user; In short, it treats EVERYONE as the same, simple user. The good thing is it's easy to use, but there's totally no room for improvement, you can't turn on advance mode; By making things simple, their OS is easily managed, less problem, less complain from users facing problem, and they also make the user so used to it that, when they see something more advance, the user will feel it's too complicated and hard to use.
Personally, I won't consider it as doing something right, but they understand what people wants, apps/games.

Like you said and I said before too, apps can be created anytime, but the OS is only control by the manufacturer and it also depends how customizable and flexible it is.
There sure will be apps and games available, just the matter of how many and more importantly, the quality and useful ones.
And for apps, I'm not sure how many people always use apps and use many types of apps; I installed a lot of apps on my N900, also on the iPod Touch (which I get because I wanted some apps, but after that I hardly even touch it), but I'm not really using the apps much; With a good browser, I don't even use Facebook App, etc. I surf full desktop version sites, so there's no need for FB App and so on. But with the N9, it'll need to rely on the Facebook app, but I still stick back to the N900 most of the time, the N9 is more on reading the feeds.

Anyway, what is the important apps to each person is also the factor, e.g. WhatsApp; As you can see, because of just one app, WhatsApp, it can deter someone decision from getting it, despite how much they want it, and they don't really care about other apps.
So, the manufacturer doesn't have to get many apps to be available for a platform, the most important is they need to know those important and popular apps, and made it available for their platform.

No yet, probably after I return the review unit first, plus tight budget. This years monthly income tax deduction calculation really caused a lot of trouble, last month and this month salary, the income tax deduction both increase by few hundred? Really wonder how they set the formula... how suddenly increase and by few hundred...

Apps sure will have, just the question of how many and how many are the good ones. More importantly, does it have the apps/games people want. If there're millions of apps, but all useless apps, there's no point. If there're 100 apps, and most of the apps are very useful, popular and used by many, that's more important.

Apps can be built, can be ported, anytime, as long the the developer develops or port it over; but if talking about OS, then it's different, for people who truly want a smartphone and its capabilities, will be looking for more capable OS, plus, the flexibility and customization means it's good for both the user and developer.
iOS successful because of the branding and its apps. Branding cause it's like a fashion, people wants it, like a must have, everyone talks about it.
As for the simplicity and smoothness, other OS can achieve it as well; the difference? iOS is there only, only provide the most basic features, doesn't matter who you are, it treats you as a "dumb" user, nothing else; just like what I said, imagine a camera with full AUTO mode, and little or no settings; It treats everyone as beginner and forever a beginner, it doesn't want people to learn and improve.

SGS2 is running Android, which compared to iOS, is big difference. People who realizes the limitation of iOS, will eventually move on/away and "upgrade" to other true smartphone OS, like Android. Similarly for tablets, but for tablets, even Android is not good enough because people will again realize, what they want is to be able to run those Windows app, so they again switch to Windows Tablet, but for most people, Android Tablet is good enough, while some others iPad is good enough. Just like for some people, a netbook is good enough, they only use for browsing, watching some movies, listening to music and play some facebook games; Those more demanding uses will not look at a netbook, but maybe confused into buying a netbook for its price.

Wooi, I just fell in love with the Metro UI you know. So, don't talk bad about WP please. But you can talk bad about S(tupid)Elop
I installed so many stuff to make my phone look as much as a WP phone as possible. LOL.
And I'm really impressed at how real it is. Android is POWER wey!

Still the same. Microsoft still doesn't allow UI to be customized.
Well, i don't know, I think the os is quite original, neither ios or Android.
They also produce WP7 phones.
Nokia's name is associated with boring, cheap phones. It's image is staid and stodgy. The Nokia name won't attract young trendy people like those who won't be caught driving a Volvo. It's like a marriage between the boring and the hated.
But this is nothing to do with PC business. Their dominance in PC os may work against them as nobody wants smartphones to be dominated by Microsoft.

I have installed apps in my Android to make it look like WP7. 
Messages, Phone, Gallery, Music Player, Email all have WP7 UI.
Got bored with it after a while. Still prefer Homescreens with widget and shortcuts. Convenient.

LOL...

I like this... YEARS AGO AND STILL LIKE CRAP...

Just like the N company... We had Symbian decades ago and still like crap...

If its all about marketing, then I think something is wrong with 30% of the world smartphone user.... and something even more wrong with the 18% Symbian user...