At a moment when one of the better selling phones out there absolutely refuses to support Flash of any version; Maemo (a product also out now) having the newest version of Flash would be, if anything, at least a marketing device that could/should be used to gather sales. And that's a missed opportunity to me.

While I do agree that a lot of people will not upgrade from the N900 to the next version just for Flash, I know that some folks - like myself - want the ability to use a full-blown Flash player and we're heavy Flash users or worse... developers.