First of all I want to say IU have not followed most of the post on this thread. For me I am not that concerned weather meego makes it to the N900. I got the device because of its advertised set of features. I would rather have most of the bugs fixed. and some things like turn by turn and if possible more portrait support in apps. My concerning is about the future of maemo project as a whole.

It would seem to be that after the initial optimism and excitement that followed the launch of the N900. The news of maemo merging with moblin to form meego is a big anti climax and it further again put a big question mark in Nokia's commitment to maemo (or meego). Currently the mobile space is very crowded and no other OS space is as competitive as the mobile phone space we have android, Iphone OS, windows Mobile, WebOS, Symbian etc all craving for developers mind share. For an OS to survive in this space it needs consistency (among many other things) and solid support and backing of some Big Tech company who is ready to go all the way. They also need to be stable toolkit and sdk well documented which developers can work with when porting their apps. The situation with maemo or meego is so confusing and I really dont see developers wanting to spend their time on that platform. One day we are all looking forward to maemo6 which was suppose to be the last step toward having a consumer ready maemo device. Next thing we know Nokia announces that its scraping maemo and merging it with moblin to form meego. Hence its like Nokia just hit the reset button and everything is back to square one.

For now we are told that meego is just a branding and would infact be maemo6 so they wont be much change to the maemo6 road map. But what happens after maemo6 what are the plans for maemo7 or 8 seriously no one can tell. Right now the Mobile platform with the biggest momentum is android not because its the best but because its has the full backing of google which has been following a consistent road map. Even symbian is safer to develop for than meego. because even though the UI is going through a Revamp The roadmap is clear and has the full backing of Nokia. Meego is a case of the more you look the less you see. Even maemo core developers are not certain about the future of meego.
This does not mean that meego would fail. I dont think so. I think the community would always step up to the plate and as always provide all the apps and cool tools which would make it a compelling device. But I seriously dont see meego making it mainstream anything soon. Not many developers outside the moblin/maemo/linux community would want to bet on it.The much needed commercial app developers ( and even some community developer) would become frustrated and /or confused at the constant shifting of goal post. I love maemo and I want it to succeed. I would defo get a meego device if it is released this year. But I also want a device that is mainstream, I device which could compete with android in term of developer mind share. I device with an app for everything. not just a geek niche device where the community would have to carry all the burden of developing apps for. For me that is the bigger picture that concerns me about meego.