I'm not suggesting the Touch will kill the NIT, but what it will do it steal NIT sales... most people don't care for xterm on their media player, they just want a media player and a bit of web browsing on the side would be nice. Or maybe they want to browse the web, and listening to some audio would be nice. For many many people this is the common task for portable devices.

Few people want to hack a shell onto their device but fortunately for them there is the N800. For the rest, there is the Touch. The risk is that those people wanting to hack a shell may not prove sufficiently profitable or worth the effort for Nokia to continue in this market. I hope it is, but Nokia face an uphill struggle to grow beyond the geek market and compete with the Touch which is the most obvious competitor.