You're correct... and the indications so far are that won't be the case for that reason. Maintaining both *is* a waste of resources. That is why things are marked for the next release as a milestone, but not fixed for fremantle.

Thus, if the next maemo is not on the N900 - it becomes obsolete nearly as fast as it hit the market, and everyone that bought one is out the $$. It will become a decayed dinosaur like the N810, not maintained or updated by Nokia - all new devs and customers will get the new device - and it will slowly whither and die off of attrition.

If M6 comes to the N900 this is a non-issue.. as things developed for M6 will still work on the N900. They just need to add a description of "requires multitouch" in their apps if they make use of that feature.

The reverse logic is like saying Windows shouldn't run on computers with intel graphics card or ATI cards, just because some games run better with nvidia cards than ATI cards, and intel cards just suck. Nevermind the fact that some games also run better with ATI cards (resistive touch accuracy).. that's not important.. because all leadership cares about is nvidia (multitouch) specifically!

Makes no sense.