It seems pretty odd that nokia would have an announcement like Nokia n900 Begins Shipping if that were the case.

I would think that a company would have an announcement like: "n900 production is underway! Expect deliveries to start early in the week of November 23rd!". That way people are all excited (and, more importantly, informed). Instead, we got either a completely misleading or flat out lie of a post last week. Hence, every single person who has been waiting for up to two months has every right to complain about the situation.

Nokia is a big boy. It can handle the (justified) criticism. So many people (i.e. Nokia employees) are on here defending them like they aren't in the wrong.