I really do respect your optimism over this but you need to understand that I and many others don't share it. Do not get me wrong... I certainly hope that you are right on this one but my personal experience with Nokia devices leads me to expect you are not.

It's a shame that the biggest spreader of "FUD", Nokia, do not see the need to protect their image and customers by being more communicative and affirmative regarding device support timelines etc.

On another point people on this forum need to be aware that the N900 is being sold, in the UK at least, as an uber-powerful new multimedia smartphone. One of the UK's biggest mobile retailers Carphone Warehouse is selling it this way. I went in to a store today and pretended to be a lay user interested in upgrading to the N900 having seen their adverts - they certainly aren't selling it as a dev-device. Don't be so hard on people on this point - just because you may realise it, doesn't mean that your average Joe consumer hasn't been sold it without being warned/made aware of this.