I really am confused by this ever changing strategy - unless Nokia just wants to give the message that they really don't want to go into the high-end category at all and just stick to Symbian.

Meego-harmattan was looking quite good going by the leaked videos and to the common man, that was Meego enough. Yes the dev community would still have hesitated to go full in with a hybrid which was to be short lived platform. But with QT I thought this was not a concern anymore ?

So what is the rationally for abandoning a near complete project and swiching mid-way to pure Meego which we all know is not complete as yet ? Another set of timelines, another round of development to a shifting target (completed Meego OS base), further erosion in credibility as a company strategy, and at last a new Meego device with even less apps than what a mid-way hamattan device would have helped spur.

So what's to be gained ?
Well like others said, I wouldn't count on a first generation pure Meego device as my primary device yet. At least with Meego-Harmattan I knew I could get something better than my Maemo device.