Mixing hardware and software in these discussions is not useful.

Maemo was born with the Internet Tablets but as a software platform could end up in other kind of devices. Peter has been commenting about this in the New name for internet tablet thread.

Probably the tablets depend on Maemo (why would Nokia go for a different platform to continue this line?) but... does Maemo depend on the tablets? Certainly not, and this is why Peter was interested in stirring the naming discussion.

Our team is called "Maemo Software", it's growing and has no plans to disappear - as explained many times and this will be hopefully the last time. If you see it tied only to the concept of Internet Tablets then you are missing something. "Internet" (always connected) and "Tablet" (touchscreen) are at the very heart of the Maemo strategy, but for what is known about Fremantle (e.g. high definition camera support) it's already clear that the potential for expansion is big.

And you haven't even smelled Harmattan, which is looking good...