You're making the assumption that everything at the summit was Nokia preaching to the community.

Wrong. So far wrong to be laughable!

It was a community summit, paid for by Nokia. There were a mix of talks from Nokia employees about the upcoming changes to the Maemo platform and many more contributions from the community showing their work to each other.

The reference to you was that writing little web apps on the tablet, and running them in Python gives you - as a developer and user - freedom to move to one device to another, taking your apps with you. The example being from Psion devices -> Maemo devices -> Pandora -> Beagleboard -> desktop -> ...