You're unfortunately dealing with an entire forum - and yes, I'm purposely using a rather broad paintbrush stroke here - that deals in "It's not iOS, it's not Android, it's not WebOS... it's made by Nokia so I must have it!" types that think that Nokia cares about whatever we say, think, do and above all want.

They don't.

So why would you want this? My reasons are simple.... it's not iOS, it's not Android, it's not WebOS... it's Maemo.

To me, it doesn't bring a goshdarn thing to the table. There's no VLC. There's no mention of Adobe Flash - sorry Flash haters, I dev the ****, so I need to see that ****. There's not even mention of what kind of music I can have on it - a cloud player (Amazon, Google, somebody) would be nice to have. And knowing that I'll continue to get updates will also be great to know.

But it's Maemo. Updates? Pfft. Never in the past has a platform been routinely ignored by a company not named Microsoft (I'm thinking of MS BOB, btw when I say that). Cloud, modern features? Pfft. I got terminal... I can do everything... but convince Nokia and other vendors I'm worthy of their support.

I do know it can be used alongside Qt. Great. I'll heap that along with my .NET, AS3, and lately Android App Inventor stuff.

Forget convincing you why you should like it. Nokia has announced something new... and to me, has convinced some. I'm convinced that I want it... mainly because I want a new toy. I mean gadget. I mean... phone.

But as to why others want it, couldn't tell you. But you know... it might save me from an ecosystem that I don't agree with. Both track the hell out of me - iOS and Android. Both have all of my information that I'd love to access more freely.

Hell... I might even evangelize Maemo Harmattan because they have zero buttons on the front whereas Apple has one, Android has 4, WP7 has 3... they beat Apple to the no-button game.

But to convince you... lemme say this. If it had the apps, ready to be built for it, natively - read: no EasyDebian - and allowed you to drag, drop your stuff onto it (music, video, contacts, content) and those things were actual-factual... could that convince you?

Could that convince me?

Until I hear the answers to those things... I doubt you'll hear anything that will convince you otherwise.

I know... I know... tl;dr. Here's the summary: Nokia announce new device. Now Nokia needs to deliver popular content or at least deliver vendors that will enable that. Period.