That's what I suspect, but by my reasoning, selling devises was the previous money maker not software, (the software can evolve exponentially while the device is rooted in the physical market) this allows the software to evolve exponentially progressing beyond just the device.

To me it now looks like Nokia are committing to selling Intel's product line, limiting the exponential progress expected from software and limiting all the development to the the physical market of manufacturing. My concern is that MeeGo will not give the freedom meomo has deliver until now. (and may be just like Android a platform to launch a monopolistic business model limiting progress.)

All in all I am optimistic some one will make a phone OS that syncs my outlook task descriptions like Palm but gives me the freedom to run native Linux aps. like maemo. if MeeGo can do it I'll hang in, but if it winds up like WebOS or Android, I may as well resign and make the switch now - because as valuable as my n900 is its not worth hanging onto if they bug https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6892 isn't solved.