If it's a capacitive screen with a hardware keyboard, why would you really need a stylus? Same for a dpad. It's effectively how I use my n810 now. The only time I need the stylus or dpad are for ui elements that weren't developed for a finger.

Lotta venom here. Some valid points: i.e. how far ahead of its time the n800 truly was, but the truth is a company doesn't stay in business being ahead of its time. So what strategy do you use if you have an idea where you want to take a platform? Open source it and watch what people fix and develop for you for free, then include that in a shipping unit that's had more polish and is consumer ready.

The release of a new product doesn't render the previous one defunct.

Just keep it open for me, so I can get ssh, gnumeric, and ati85 on it, and I'm good. Honestly, wolfram alpha could replace ati85 but for nostalgia.