But it is happening. Perhaps you weren't here two years ago, but Nokia's make great leaps and bounds since then and continues to make even more progress. Now, you could argue that it's not happening fast enough, but that's a separate issue from "not happening" at all.

What makes you think Maemo wont offer a good choice of devices? There've been more than a few hints lately along the lines of multiple device choices. Besides, if you want open (in all meanings of the word), Android doesn't really seem like the right choice.

Why? Did I miss a memo about the world ending?

Er, it didn't? As far as I remember we found out about OMAP3 and HSPA in the next tablet, and quite a lot of information about Fremantle and its roadmap was revealed. The certainly sounds like something to me.

Did you miss the pre-alpha? Or the slew of bugs that have been resolved lately? Or the continued roadmapping on the wiki? The alpha's just around the corner, and the beta after that. I think you'd be pretty safe betting on a hardware announcement mixed in there somewhere.

Which all stacks up to quite a lot more than "just trust us". Again, you could claim that it's not enough, but you certainly can't claim it's nothing more hot air.

They've delivered 3 fantastic devices so far, what leads you to believe they can't deliver a fourth?

To me, it really all sounds like a lot of melodramatic sensationalism that's hardly worth wasting on stupid software platform.