I'm sure all things are possible. I just felt like it was indicitive of a feeling like they abandoned the device soon after launch to work on the next shiny thing.

Yeah true, I had that with the gdp pocket which I used a lot. I can replace and update the software (Linux in my case), but hardware support was dropped very fast. Since then I am a bit more careful. I like real open projects like the Pandora or the Pyra as hardware support is there for so long (more than a decade for the Pandora) that it keeps going with small replacements. However, those devices are just not as high spec or practical. Open source hardware and software but with great specs and formfactor are far away it seems.