Just looking at the 5800 alone, it is now apparently accounting for 20% of touchscreen device sales globally. If the tablets were selling anything like that much, surely Nokia would have announced it by now.


I don't know who told you that, but I have difficult believing them when Nokia is putting all their promotional efforts into the N97, which is due out in a couple of months:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O2Li74EYew

The only way maemo devices could "push" S60 to mid-level is if maemo was used on a phone, otherwise maemo wouldn't really be an alternative to S60.

But if Nokia does try to make a maemo-based phone, it would mean developing two rival smartphone platforms simultaneously (maemo and symbian) which isn't good business sense. Apple got into that situation with the Apple II and Macintosh, and we know what happened there...



I agree that's a good sign, but I'd be a lot happier knowing that this development would end up in a viable product.

Internet tablets without telephony aren't viable products. People do not want general pocket computers that lack the ability to do phone calls. If there was a demand for it, someone would be selling them in large quantities by now.



I write guides for the kind of people who don't even know what a command line is.

Apparently half of maemo users are developers, and I'm willing to bet the other half are mostly hardcore tech users. What would be the point of me being involved with a crowd like that?


Maemo.org is never, ever, going to be a suitable place for consumers because it's a developer site.

Yes, end users of maemo and developers of maemo both use maemo, but their relationship to it is totally different and there is no potential overlap.

Imagine trying to merge a supermarket and chef school all into one building because chefs and supermarket customers deal with food: it would make no sense.