yes.

different issue entirely than the one stated.

to which the answer is....

even more definitively ...it still won't happen.

No small or large company will do it for the numbers of neo900's there will be to service...
for the expected low number of devices...
a few hundred at best...
it won't happen.

everyone here understands the industry enough to know that.
sourcing parts...the time and labour..
it just isn't feasible.

Long term ...
essentially what everyone will end up having is failing n900 parts and components ...and a very expensive ...very unique BB-esque / Pi-esque board...
to which.. folks will have to cobble whatever they can together to make functional.

I am sure that will be doable...
but in the end ..
I doubt it will be anything like a sleek and pocket size portable smartphone in shape after all the parts that will need replacing.

and that is just the beginning of the problems.

then there is the community...
what community there will be..
of at best a few hundred ...
keeping a community of that size alive..
will be well nigh impossible..
let alone keeping an os running for those numbers ..
or software devel for those numbers

If the goal is for the neo to be open and free...it will succeed I have no doubt.

If the goal is for the neo to be the next gen of n900...
yet again ...it will succeed ...
and be the last of it's kind.
On the fact that... n900 parts will become extinct.

and if the goal is for the neo to be the next gen for maemo to work on...(along with running other os's of course..)...

then it will be the last device to run maemo.

With everyone else using failing original n900's ...
and n900's cobbled together from scavenged n900 parts..
and only a lucky rare few hundred who can afford to have the next gen. maemo compatible device...
then the maemo majority will dissapear..
and the small number of neo900 end users will bottleneck the maemo platform to oblivion.

To be affordable and competitive and have a future...
the neo900 must adopt a methodology similar to the pi or the pocketchip...more affordable production ...means more end users...means a larger more vibrant and healthy community ...which sustains the desire of the enduser to stay and new folks to join.

other hopes for maemo may work....on other devices...
I do hope so...anyway.

None of what I have just said is meant to be fear mongering or defeatist...
bigger companies, more popular devices, with a larger community number base...have fallen....due to not looking at the issues holistically ..but rather singularly.

between the numbers, the stats and the odds...
and the specifics of the situation for the n900 users...
the makers of the neo900...and it's end users..
and the maemo community..
If we all don't tackle the slow-mo crisis ...holistically .. (the norm being 1 thing/ area/ topic/ being the important thing and all others being not relevant ..)...

then the situation will continue to unfold for us all...
regardless of what we have or are running.