This thread is only nominally about Flash. The real problem is Nokia's habit of releasing hardware and then almost immediately abandoning it. The symbian guys are used to it -- s60 3rd ed / 5th ed hurt a lot of people -- but a lot of Maemo users were attracted by the technology and weren't aware of Nokia's unwillingness to support the people who buy their phones. The other great example of this exists on this very form -- find the thread called "Fixed in fremantle and the diablo community ssu." Nokia used to be great about OS support on the N-series internet tablets. They even released a "hacker edition" of maemo 4 that would work on the oldest tablets. Then they started planning Fremantle, and the minute that happened the Diablo users were screwed forever. Ironically, the last big update for Diable enabled installing updates over the air, so you didn't have to reflash... and then the updates stopped coming. Fremantle killed Diablo over a year before the Fremantle SDK even came out.
They're maemo and MeeGo... "Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...