geneven,

This may be your impression, but it's wrong... There are several user-prompted initiatives that the Council has/can/will fight for concerning future development of Maemo devices. If you think that there is something important that these devices needs to achieve, you can either (a) take it directly to Nokia (which may or may not be heard), or (b) ask the Council to take it to Nokia (which will definitely be heard). I'm not saying that anything we say will come to pass, but it really is a good start.

Likewise, users can always open bug reports and feature requests at bugs.maemo.org. If this is the case, the Council is constantly trolling there in order to suggest priorities to Nokia.

I see that I'm responding a few pages short of the current end of this thread, so someone may have already responded to this, but I feel that it is important for NIT users to understand that we are your advocates. Don't assume that we aren't trying to figure out what's best for the future of Maemo. Also, don't assume that we can do this without you.

Tim