There never will be a replacement for the N900, the N900 was a hacker device not a mass market device. Looking at how Nokia is moving they are killing off anything thats not mass market, so the N900 and the N9 are the last of their open sourced devices, now its microsoft all the way...

Elop has unfortunately made that pretty clear, the N9 will be my last nokia because of this... It was a sad day when elop changed the companies direction as there was one less option available in the market and a great option at that.

The main thing lacking in meego is the third party developer support but this would have came if nokia and to a lesser extent intel still backed the platform... Symbian could have become the next billion devices (not series 40) leaving meego to the top tier high end devices, they would all share the same ecosystem (QT) meaning everything would just work with minor repackaging of files

I think nokia's biggest loss here is that they no longer have ownership of the ecosystem, the store or the operating system. The lack of a store alone means they lose their commission on every app sale which even with the limited apps on the N9 I have bought quite a few already. These losses will add up to quite a lot over time making nokia just another HTC with no differentiating factors other than hardware...