Christ So it is like this:

->OS2008 - Exclusively Internet tablet OS
Maemo5 - Exclusively N900
Maemo6 - Does not officially exist, but will be used on the next MeeGo device.
MeeGo - Will not be used on anything, but application development will be compatible with Symbian, and Maemo6 (that does not exist) and also with Maemo5.

MeeGo will be supportet on the N900, but not officially. Mostly because Nokia is developing Maemo6 (that will never exist) for the new MeeGo device.

One question still remains; will the new MeeGo device (N9 presumably) ever run MeeGo? Will anything ever run MeeGo.

Maybe I have been sleeping in class, but the facts still remains, MeeGo on the N900 is far far from being in any sort of usable state. But more importantly, why should it ever be in a usable state? When there is no difference between Maemo5, Maemo6 (that does not exist) and MeeGo (that never will exist) from an aplication developer point of view, wouldnt it be better to use those recources to develop Maemo further also for the N900, to keep the N900 alive so that lots of apps (compatible with Symbian, MeeGo and Maemo6) later on can be recompiled for those platforms?

I mean, come on, this is a mess! a terrible mess, an unbelievable mess. No sense of direction, no focus. This simply does not make sense - period.

Symbian, on the other hand, is finally on the right path. It started with S60.5 and continues slowly but steadily evolving into the future.

The E7 is Nokias new "comunicator", the new flagship. This can only mean that the N9 is something different, or that it will be very late.