There is one thing, which qgil also mentioned: Remember the (few for now) companies that wanted to test the maemo platform in order to find out if there can be profit for them (angry birds, hoop-frenzy, etc..)? They are not sure about maemo right now.

Now, enter the mind of some of them: If they write something for meego it will run on mobiles, tables and TVs (!). Imagine TV users buying programs! All sort of people! Now, that's a *big* and *new* market!

So yeah... 2010 will be fun :-)

p.s. This may also extend N900's lifetime since (most probably) the next device will be delayed because of the merge.