I imagine the decisions at Nokia are made by Inspecter Clouseau!

"We have a great product - N900 we have a large user base here in Europe and a teeny-weeny user base in the USA. Where shall we launch first? It's a no brainer - let's launch in the USA!"

"There are bugs in the N900's firmware. Let's prematurely release new firmware and create new ones"

"Maemo 5 is complete but still needs some work. F*** it! Let's create a new version and ignore the current version it's a few months old - that's ancient"

"Let's announce free ovi maps update to 10 phones, ignore the n97 flagship phone and don't worry we'll release a free version for maemo - except it will be the new version we have not finished yet"

"The n900 sold really well! How can we improve sales? We could release the free ovi maps for it too what a great selling point! Why spend £500 on a gps sat nav system when you can buy an n900 phone and functioning computer instead? - Nah! F*** it we'll release for the next non-existent maemo & phone version instead!"