If maemo has a future, then it is called MeeGo. We have to make the platform attractive for other vendors and developers. The most applications at the N9(50) works thanks to Qt at the N900. But they have to be done and also talented and gifted developers need time and devices for this work.
Nokia and Android had harmed maemo the past 12 month a lot more than the N950 and the currently happening migration to the future. The N9 is not for everyone (I love my N900 already a lot more because of the keyboard and the flash support) but it is the next step. And we have to show HTC, Samsung and LG how strong we are in hopes to give our future a new home. Nokia had already stopped to manufacture the N900 and they don't live forever. We need a successor before our retirement - a successor without Microsoft!