Hehehe, not a threat; I don't push buttons at Nokia or anywhere else, I just look at the road as its presented in front of me and drive according to a different speed limit

Ovi is getting closer and closer to Nokia's overall solution, and therefore Nokia pitching it as a hub for PIM and multimedia, not the solution, but a spoke in the solution - the solution is the internet that revolves around how you use it.

Depending on how much Nokia/Maemo likes the idea of the browser being an important underpinning to the platform - the engine and ability to use plugins, not so much the chrome - this is very possible. Expose the functionality via a few libraries and eas-er to code extensions and then its just a matter of wrapping Qt, Hildon, or whatever shell on top of it that works best for the means.

I'm not saying that Ovi is the solution, we are probably a good tablet OS generation from that being the case. But in terms of what's to come and what is possible, having something that is not connected to Nokia's other properties is probably not the best line of thinking.

...that all being said, the platform is open, anyone can develop on top of it given some coding knowledge, functionality, and a nearly decent UI