I don't think we can toss out the technical issue so quickly. Bloat tends to always be a problem, and tossing newer and faster hardware will never solve it if the OS itself and its programs are not optimized for that platform. Even maemo suffers from a problem to that extent when software is ported from desktop Linux. What's the point with specs for a device that are say greater than the n900 if the device itself runs slower than the n900 due to the chugging of the programs? And if Android sticks with java only (though I did read about being able to program in C soon I think) than it will never be optimized by virtue that Java was meant to be a cross-platform language.

I don't have a problem with Android (and as I said before, I think it's going be the winner in the long run). But for me they still have alot of problems they need to sort out (including openness to an extent since I do like the ability to modify my devices to my liking) before I would choose Android over Maemo.