Well, the vast majority of members here are Maemo users, and the N900 was the most commercially successful of the Maemo devices, so it perhaps isn't surprising. These type of apps would be targeted at the majority of the audience. However, there's still plenty of Harmattan devices amongst the winners - there's a good mix I think.

I just want to address the (!) in your post and hope to make it clear that the 3 month rule was a restriction of the maemo,org election voting process and it's not intended to keep any users of a particular device out. N9, N950, N900, N800, N....X users were all very welcome and indeed encouraged to take part, including offshoot operating systems such as Nemo and the likes. The restriction was that you needed a maemo.org account registered at the time of the competition starting.

We've now almost completed the 3rd yearly competition, and this restriction was brought in after the first competition. It's certainly not something new we brought in to skew the voting one way or another. As mentioned a few pages back, during the initial competition we discovered that users and friends of users were creating fake and dummy accounts with the only purpose to place votes in the competition. That's why the restriction was put in place that only accounts created before the competition got started were eligible to vote. I can understand and I do think it is unfair to new genuine users who want to take part but unfortunately the flexibility in the system isn't really there to do everything we would like.

I think there's some confusion caused by the seperation of the maemo.org and talk.maemo.org accounts. Most people reading this post have a talk.maemo.org account. talk.maemo.org is the forums section you're reading now. However, maemo.org is the main site, it's through maemo.org that the Coding Competition devices are assigned and distributed. In terms of voting, it's through the maemo.org account that entitles you to a vote or not. I think a lot of new users do not see the separation between both accounts, and I honestly can understand the confusion - both sites have been designed in such a way to provide a continuous experience and do appear to be part of one whole. As maemo.org morphs into whatever it becomes next, I believe this situation will be gone and everything will be under a single account.

Also, if you have not done so already, I do encourage everyone to create a maemo.org account and enjoy it while we still have it. It is not simply a site used for developers of Fremantle apps.

Also (.. I realise what started as a quick response is now turning a ramble..) you have to remember that Fremantle was 5th Maemo OS.. Maemo existed a long time before Fremantle was the step 5 twinkle in a developer's eye, and it would be unfair that these folks who have built maemo.org up into the comunity is is today didnt get a chance to participate in the competition. If you click around maemo.org you'll see that it is vast, and then there are other separate areas such as the irc with development and discussions you don't see on here. I suspect the majority of people with a "long forgotten" maemo.org account wouldn't take the time to come back and vote on apps that didn't interest them, but perhaps if they did they'd see great apps like your Flatboat and decide to stick around and get involved again

Edit: You'll have to excuse my slightly surly tone in the above as I now have to sit with my father and watch the 'highlights' of his football team beating my football team on TV which isn't helping my mood one bit...