Some common sense at last, thanks :-)

Peter is really trying to help us out here, with very large writing between the lines, which I interpreted the same way you did :

Maemo needs to move up from an experimental skunkworks operation in a dark corner inside Nokia, and become an integrated, bone fida Business Unit. Thus it needs to prove its mettle and sustain itself : at Nokia, that means selling units, lots of units, preferrably making some money along the way.

Nokia and the general consumer public being what they currently are, that probably means putting Maemo under the mass market spotlight by way of a Maemo smartphone.

Maybe a few hundred vocal, hardcore veterans on ItT/Tmo (me included, perhaps) will pass on that device because it is not a "true" Internet tablet in their eyes. But that is not a problem, not the issue : if, on the other hand, Nokia moves millions of those gizmos to the iPhone/Pre/Android target crowd (which doesn't buy Internet tablets), it means securing Maemo's continued livelihood, more developpers, more apps, more third-party deals (remember Flash and Skype ?)...

It may actually be the only chance that the new Maemo BU could maintain that little project on the side, building on maemo's new fame and its own autonomy : a more confidential, non-phone offer for the enthusiast crowd -- sort of like an Internet tablet.

Maybe I'm reading too much in there but it seems to make a lot of real-world, economic sense. Anyway, as I've already said, I'm prepared to give it time and see it through. Meanwhile, shooting the very people who bring us what little information they're allowed to provide... is not going to get us anywhere :-)