If Nokia aren't going to properly support the N900, they're shooting themselves in the foot big time!

Maemo is a late and so far pretty marginal, if potentially very promising, entry in the crowded smartphone OS field. It's too far from being comparable in terms of many features and performance with Nokia's own incumbent S60 platform.

If we, the early adopters get once again taken for a ride, I really don't see who's going to buy the next Maemo device. Nokia will slowly but surely regress to the rank of cheap & cheerful "convenience" phone manufacturer and we all will be running either Android or Apple OS phones in ~18 months' time.

If, on the other hand, Nokia concentrates hard to make the N900 a wotrhy competitor to Android, S60 and the iPhone OS, then there's hope...