How can Nokia or Maemo not have forseen this, people were all over the OS2008 and Canola forum for days.
The number of hits these forums have generated the past 2 weeks should have been a nice indicator for what was to happen on release day.
In the meantime I have now 8 consecutive failed installs
I say : its a job badly done, I know my boss would not be amused If I treated our users like this.