Oh, I'll be willing dragged there (kicking and screaming the whole way ).

But to go with the car analogy, to me it seems more like taking a V8 and putting it in a Ford Escort. It certainly changes how we look at car and driving. You can do some things well (go fast straight), but others not so well (cornering at speed). Put that same motor in a larger better designed (for the motor) car, you can go fast, corner, etc.

That's the danger I see, taking Maemo: taking that big strong engine that is Maemo, and putting it in ever smaller less appropriate shells (smaller screen, capacitive, less hardware buttons). Making it ever better a small subset of tasks, and ever less effective at a larger variety of tasks.