It is true, I also don't like to "bother" some people with this complementary footers or headers sometimes (such a position in a company and so on). This could make the maemo devices different from the ones that have this feature fixed.

But keep in mind that, the other companies make a huge publicity with such a feature. (See iPhone, Blackberry and also softwares itself like twitterrific, Android).

Who does not have in mind iPhone while surfing the net?You can find something related to it EVERYWHERE.
Even if the iPhone is not the best telephone ever (In fact it is not), I'd dare to say that it is the most famous since this big campaign of advertisements.

So, I see a dilemma here:
Do we want maemo to still being unknown?
(I have to clarify that for developers community it is of course not unknown, but if I ask my father, a normal smartphone user, he would refer to windows mobile or Android)

Or do we want maemo to be known as one of the priorities in the mobile devices...?
(I'd like to ask my father in some months about mobile devices OS and to hear a sweet maemo from him)

Looking forward to hearing your opinions...