They could sell this to a few geeks. But that's it. Meego never came even close to Android in terms of quality. And ern Android would probably not work for Nokia. Nokia is doing exactly the right thing - just years too late.
The main reason they are "too late" is that MS has screwed them - first by limiting the capabilities of WP7 phones, then by betraying them right at the time they launched their flagship and saying there'd be no upgrades to WP8 for ANY phones, and then finally for forcing them to wait forever to get Windows 8 devices out. In my view the Microsoft partnership has been a disaster for Nokia.