This is like reading the obituaries for the N900, and TMO. It isn't long before Nokia cuts this website as part of a "marketing blitz", "cost savings", customer support, or under some other reason.

A unique bunch of people, and it won't be long till the community really goes separate ways. Some will migrate with Nokia to WP7, some will go to Android, some to Apple, and others like true trend setters will wait until some new zany company with some flavor of Linux comes to market. The point is the N900 hardware has met it's Zenith long past, and like any other bunch of hardware zealots (There is a reason we were with Nokia; it was because of the hardware!) we must move on.

Personally I believe Nokia has made its bed, it is not our problem and it it is only up to Nokia to prove that WP7 was worth turning their back on the pet project that barely made it to completion.

The community had many differing viewpoints, but it is safe to say that when dissenting voices in the community converged, Nokia did the opposite. It can probably make some good research paper into distributed management styles. It is sad that Nokia has never really utilized the mind share that was ready and willing. Nokia has squandered the reputation of their brand, and ultimately created the monster we see today ... the hostile community.

The only remaining question is why even release the N9 at all if it is DOA? Why send out developers phones when the N9 and the consumers using it won't be of a significant volume? The N900 will probably have more users using it than the N9.