this kinda reminds me of the Amiga debacle a few years ago.  The Amiga was the first seriously affordable graphics capable computer (for those who didn't know).  When Commodore went under, the Amiga name was bandied about like a cheap love doll, until Gateway bought the rights and copyrights to the whole line.  Gateway announced things like the (much) needed upgrades, and how they respected the Amiga community (like we've never heard that before) and how the people assigned to the new line of Amiga computers and products would do everything in their power to listen to the community and develope the product fort he actual users.
Then, one day, without warning Gateway said... "Nope, changed our minds.... no Amiga for the masses."  (rumour has it that MS had threatened to not issue OS Licenses to Gateway if they continued their pursuit of alternative systems... but that's jus a rumour).... 
but that's just me, not really pessimistic but still wary.