Yes, like you said, these complaints are related to one phone, not the operating system. Not to claim that these aren't real issues, but still, there's newer Android phones (Hero, for one) that don't suffer from, well, any of these, and the Droid device and other upcoming ones are comparable to the N900 in hardware. Android 1.6 is out now, and a major upgrade in the form of Android 2.0 is coming quite soon (maybe not as soon as N900 but certainly way before the next Maemo). So G1 vs. N900 is hardly a valid comparison. Still, in certain aspects (Market), The G1 would still come out on top.

I'm baffled by this hostility toward Android too, and I find it really annoying, frankly, as I'm a "fan" and "root for" both of these OS's. My phone is Android, but I'm still quite fond of the N810, and I'm hoping Maemo will be used in a decent phone or perhaps a nice tablet eventually. I'm just not interested in paying 700 euros to Beta test Nokia's first Maemo phone that will be abandoned by Christmas when they start working on their next one, but let's not get into that (oh noes, afraid I just did...), still, I'm hoping there will be a good Maemo phone eventually next year or whenever Maemo 6 is out, it's just a race between the "best Android device" and the "best Maemo device" for me. I frankly like the competition a lot, I think it's great for the consumer and I'm very sick of the anti-Anrdoid fanbois here on the forums too.

The "it's from Google and Google is evil" stuff is so ridiculous that I won't even touch it. Nokia isn't exactly a boyscout when it comes to many, many things about the company. Ask the people working for it or read up on what sort of laws they ask the government to pass here, for starters. I for one trust Google way more than my dear countrymen. (And besides, Google doesn't completely control Android anymore blahblahblah...). Regarding open source, I don't see a difference between Google's and Nokia's approach to open-source, really, both bundle their own software with the system and let you build your own stuff for it, that's it, it's all good.