No matter how interesting the software is - it's not sexy. I really think Nokia has a marketing problem (in more than one segment) if the focus is going to be software software software for the next couple of months.
Momentum might grow for the software devs., but what about us users - we really need to see a product before we can get exited. Even though the segment is still niche - isn't the next (step 5) version of maemo hardware gonna be for "the general public"?
For this to work - I think Nokia has to turn things around. Fire up the users by showing what the gadget looks like...


And yes - these are just ramblings from a tech interested user (non-programmer), but there are quite a few of us...