I think what people want is an n900 version 2, that boots into maemo/meego, Has a keyboard, or one that can be attached. Can multi task like an n900 and has thhe desktop etc. AND can connect to the google play market and do all that stuff just by pressing a button, like you would on an android device. Plus run full web pages, with latest flash and all that.
That's certainly what I would like. Unfortunately it doesn't exist, and as my beloved n900 is starting to get a bit slow on the web these days I got myself an android. I wanted updated hardware to be able to surf the web faster plus other things. I got a galaxy note. It's good and fast with a great screen, but there are annoyances with it because it can't do some eimple things that are a breeze on the n900.

Manufacturers are't making what would be the perfect device. Maybe deliberately so we are forced to keep upgrading. If they made something like a note, with a slide out/attachable keyboard that could run maemo and android. If they don't want to use maemo or meego, why couldn't they just design some kind of over-arching task manager themselves and make it fit in with android? If they made that device then customers would have no need to buy again for 2 or 3 years.
Perhaps it is just lazyness.
It's the same with hardware buttons. The trend is to have less and less. No, give me more you idiot manufacturers. Don't just blindly follow what apple did last summer because you think the kids will say it's cool. It is all giving us consumers less and less choice, forcing us down the route where eventually we'll just have a pebble or something, with no buttons at all on it. They'll all look the same and you'll have to shake them in certain ways to activate things on it. The only differences will be that a different logo is on the side depending on who made it.