I wouldn't call developer programs, quality programs. Not for the consumer - that qualifier is necessary.

To this developer, the lack of commandline *.swf creation tools annoys the ever-living **** out of me on Maemo. I even had started to hack up my N900 (then) to get it to work.

Same for Mono. I sometimes need C#. Not having both of those means that from my perspective, there's a lack of "quality" apps on Maemo.

It's all a matter of perspective and what suits you definitely doesn't suit me, vice versa.

The moment people stop thinking in terms of just themselves and start thinking about the bigger picture, we might see that's why the N900 didn't sell as much as the Samsung Galaxy S, Apple iPhone or other mainstream phones.

And that's probably why the N900 didn't get vendor support, nor support from Komodo (LORD I'd kill for a proper IDE on Maemo) or Adobe (gimme commandline Flex dammit) or Mono (it ain't there, I've checked) or Java (it wasn't officially there, but some seriously smart folks got it there)... among many others. Hell, I'd kill for a GIT/Capistrano (Ruby) implementation on Maemo.