I know your biggest hang up (that I've read) is the flash 10.1 thing to stop you from buying.

And I do understand that, of course, being that Flash pays your bills.

But I mean really gerbick - with the Harmattan CE thread, and MeeGo images for the N900 - you really don't think the N900 will get Flash in some way by the time it lands on all the major players as well?

I know Nokia has said no official support for it.. but meh. I suspect we'll see it. That's the reason I've always liked Maemo and NIT devices.

I will say I was let down by the Mer project; but I was impressed by how far they got with what was available to them - but MeeGo and the Harmattan CE show a lot more promise; especially since there are full builds of MeeGo for the N900 as a dev platform. (And Harmattan's device will be very similar in hardware to the N900).

This is what I know:
The iPhone would be useless to me without Jailbreaking (and even then... not much.)
My android phone was useless to me until I rooted it, and flashed Super-D's enhanced ROM.

Both of those are unsupported by their respective companies.

The N900 is useful to me now; as useful at least, if not more, than the Android Super-D ROM was - and it's still supported.

When the next big thing hits and MeeGo is stable: MeeGo will likely be the road I go - and at that point: it's still no different than the other two!

So, the N900 is good for now and is still supported. Once Flash 10.1 gets big and anything else on the N900 ceases to function right, or support ends - Then MeeGo will give me what I'm missing.. and I'm no worse off at that point than either the iPhone or Android.. as they will all be running unofficial builds of the software in order to function for me.

The biggest difference at that point is: I can trust the source of my MeeGo builds since they come right from Nokia (even if they are unsupported).. with the iPhone you download an app from God knows who to root it, and on Android you download freeware from random filesharing sites. I still like the alternative that Nokia provides to these other two.