The funny thing is to see people complaning that N9 will lack support... on the MAEMO forum! Same place where the N900 when released was considered experimental, with almost no support, and everybody wanted it - and made it worth by their own hands.

MeeGo is not dead in Nokia, just had some budget cut. We can mostly expect a new MeeGo (or at least a "disrupting") device per year, the same way it was with Maemo. And now it's part of the MeeGo platform, that have more leverage, so we are not only depending on Nokia for that.

And of course, it is, like the N900, expected to be a community driven device. It's linux, open source, so all the Maemo and MeeGo devs will eventually turn their heads to it and fill the gaps and provide apps. And it's a much more confortable position that before: the device is competitive, doesn't lack any core technology or integration, is more finished than the N900, with mouch more consumer appeal. With Qt and you guys porting the N900 apps to it, it's easily well covered. 90% of the core smartphone usage (or more) is already built-in (facebook, twitter, email, maps) so it works well out of the box.