investing to fremantle wouldn't probably have been realistic option even without meego. testing stuff and experimenting probably would have been realistic for fremantle. but still the most of the commercial content would probably have utilized the drm chip (and multitouch) and that would also mean no content to fremantle or demos/similar at maximum.

probably not, but this is exactly what I mean when I talk about step 4. early EOSL is not what I'd say because appearance of harmattan would have EOSL:d fremantle at the same point or even earlier.