iirc it was at the maemo summit '09 when i heard it. (even if i wasnt there... but there's the internet, you know.) they said harmattan would use multi touch plus drm, so it was clear it wouldnt come to the n900.

but you're right: not man people got that message. a lot more people can clearly remember when nokia said "the n900 will get full portrait mode support, swype, flash 10.1, the symbian version of ovi maps, video calling, native mms, text2speech, voice dialling and one new surprise feature every other months".