To me it looks pretty obvious (considering timing of events related to meego et all) Nokia decided to ditch Maemo regardless of N900's success, possibly already before it hit the shelves.

Nothing to do with N900, everything to do with nature of this industry.

VPN + SSH, sure .. but with qwerty ...

Sure others can do it, but My point was excatly this; my N900 does it along many other things.

Day after day I use it, it is more and more enjoyable device to have in professional point of view.

ps. you actually can hold it as you like and make phonecalls

I don't think Nokia realises the ramifications though. I will give you an example. I have always bought Nokias and since my extended family and many of my friends rely on me for recommending handsets, many have bought Nokias. I reckon that I have directly and indirectly led to the sale of c.100 Nokia handsets till now over the last 5-10years, which comes to between 10 and 20 Nokia handsets per year. This year, for the the first time, I ordered a HTC Desire for my wife, and I think I would be recommending others to move away from Nokia as well, not because I am unhappy with my N900 but because I am unhappy with Nokia's treatment of the N900 owners.

I think many of us on this forum are opinion makers in our small groups. So even though the N900 owners are a minority, we influence the opinion of a large section of Nokia customers, and it is the magnitude of the impact a minority can have, especially a minority as resourceful as this forum, that Nokia doesn't understand. So it has nothing to do with industry as far as I am concerned and all to do with a company which has forgotten about the things that are really important.