It just seems daft to cease maemo support.

Although there are existing bugs in maemo, it was in a good position for Nokia to potentially launch some serious smartphone hardware.

If they launched another maemo-based device this year - e.g. slimline, keboardless, multi-touch phone and updated software.
Nokia could have had a "flagship" device for this christmas. The current Nx models have received "meh, so what?" reviews.

Many reviewers were excited about the n900 when it was launched last year and expected great things from Nokia.

Instead Nokia started the whole thing again with meego and a device won't be released until mid to end of next year (2011).

Utterly ******ed commercial decision.