Take it from me who has used Android and the G1 for over a year now.

The best apps came out when the device launched and "almost" everything since then is the same junk. There is no API access, so no new codecs or other hardware dependent apps can be made and the app memory is too low. The OS also gets bogged down a lot.

Even the game emulators on it are bogged down due to byte code layer translation. Some do play great, but use too much cpu clock to get it done and you MUST be able to overclock.

That being said, 3430 chipset should make a lot of issues better in regards to performance. Game emulators should all be smoother now, but it is taking a lot of hardware to make it better (kind of like Vista). Then again, Motorola is probably capping the CPU to conserve battery and you can not overclock unless you can root the device.

If you like apps, Android sucks, unless you like similar apps and do not mind running (quickly) out of space. There is no virtual app space unless you root your phone and that assumes 2.0 will allow it or it is not complex to do on the Sholes.

Android is just as bad as iPhone's OS but different ways. You can get emulators and other "like" apps for Android without rooting (for now at least), but Apple offers far more robust API support in their SDK. Apple also does not have LESS THAN 256megs for apps and the same apps on the iPhone are better than the Android versions.

Still, the true killer for Android is app space- it does not have much and is like building a shopping mall (app market) with no parking (app space).

The N900 and Maemo should not even be discussed in the same restricted, constrained, shallow world as Android or Apple, for that matter.