I thought the first extension wasnt because of the N950 developer device program, it was because there were quite a few calls from people new wanting to take part plus existing developers seemed happy enough with the extra time too. I dont think there were any objections raised at the time.

This met nicely with the competitions goals of bringing new developers on board whilst growing current development projects. The N950 developer devices are being distributed to people who have already demonstrated mobile development skills, mostly on the N900, and most have ongoing projects. I'm not sure we need to wait for these developers