Wow, the way everybody's going about how an Apple executive will taint Maemo as a whole makes me incredulous.

Do you think a corporaton and its directions and strategies are so neboulous that one excutive willc hange it all in a flash ?

Secondly what gives that an Apple excutive will make Maemo more Apple like ? Nokia must have selected him based on certain merits and qualifications - and not necesarily to make Maemo more Apple like ? Apart from changing the way Maemo's openness is , there may be othere ways he can bring some positives - like in the Marketing dept and how to position the N900 to consumers .. etc etc.

I think all this talk about "oh, now we are tainted" is just reflexive Apple hatred creeping in. At least as a eye opener look at how Apple executives did manage to change Palm for the positive (granted Palm never set out to do an open OS).