You're right that there should be no logical reason to abandon the N900 as a platform just because of Meego. There seems to be a bridge between the two that could be traversed.

However, the logic that we shouldn't feel the N900 is worse off after the Meego announcement, is logically flawed. Despite the fact that Meego devices should be able to run N900 Qt apps almost straight out of the box and the N900 should get Meego as the very first device, developers aren't convinced. There is no commercial development going on for the N900 at all! (Except Sygic nav).

So, why are developers apprehensive? I can think of a couple of reasons:

* The PR1.2 update enables Qt functionality that previously wasn't available to developers and until it's released we won't see any significant apps.

* The developers aren't that easily duped by promises of out of the box portability of N900 <-> Meego. They just don't buy that apps will work on both platforms with zero or almost zero conversion effort. I don't believe it either.

* Maybe the Maemo5 platform is just bad to develop for - for some reason? Firefox for the N900 is sluggish even at 900MHz and those guys should know a thing or two about open source development! The built in photo gallery is choppy as hell.

* Ovi store sucks beyond belief.

* Nokia doesn't seem to believe in the N900 enough to provide a working baseline of programs and functionality. Choppy user interface, slow and badly functioning maps, broken Exchange support, ... As an example, Apple and Google have both built very polished baseline apps for their platforms - they are showing they believe in their products. Nokia and the N900 - not so much.

* Maybe commercial apps were never supposed to come to the N900? Maybe it was supposed to be an open source community with only open source apps? That is pretty much what we have now and it seems to lead to apps being in perpetual beta state with somewhere between 30-80% of the functionality implemented. Nothing is ever finished, many apps are unusable and let's not even talk about user friendliness...

* And finally: Why should developers work on something that is step 4/5? It's up to Nokia to provide a stable and reliable platform for developers to deploy their products on. Nokia has failed to do that and the announcement of Meego has obviously done nothing to increase the faith developers have in the N900. Step 5 will never see the light of day and instead we'll get some as of yet undefined hybrid of Maemo and Moblin and my guess is many of us will have owned their N900:s for a whole year before that happens. I don't blame people for becoming bored.

Having said that, I am pretty satisfied with my N900. That's because I have no expectations at all of future updates. I take what I can get today and assume that's all it'll ever be. Unrealistic expectations will ruin the whole experience and maybe people should think a little less about what they will be getting next and try to enjoy what they have now.