I've written this article

Thanks for your feedback! This discussion, as well as discussions on Reddit and in my blog made me revise some of my opinions, especially my look on Maemo application development. Now it's obvious that Qt should be used for developing new Maemo (and Symbian OS) applications. I've updated blog post to reflect this opinion and listed each platform advantages, extracted from insightful comments here


As a side-note, as much as I like Android development platform (seriously, it's super!), the geek within sympathizes Maemo. The idea of a smartphone, powered by full Linux distro is a pure joy for hard-core Linux user like me.

Still, the ideal situation for smartphone market as a whole, developers and end-users would be healthy competition between a few major platforms, not a single platform dominance. Maemo and Android are both open-source and overly good operating systems, so it will be good if they become those dominating platforms, not killing each other, but competing in equilibrium for years, bringing innovation along the way.