Speculating about the hardware platform is a bit irrelevant, as it is just that, speculation.

That being said, the software platform is where the community can work its magic. We can define the boundaries of the path Maemo will take.

I would like to see the device being powered up for real "business" use. Playing Quake 3 on it is nice and all, but really, does that help me convince IT to buy them in bulk? Not really.

What would make it interesting for the businesses that put money in these devices would be to have it prime ready for heavy emailing (and that means, not having to wait 30+ to read an email after receiving the notification you just got an email), easy answering and immediate, hyper-responsive User Interfaces.

Glued to that, support all the major meeting-makers formats (there's not that many), so that people can switch seamlessly from their corporate phone to their N900, and that they never have to look back. All the time people are struggling to do the most basic things on their BlackBerry's, yet, I didn't leave my corporate SIM card in the N900, not because I don't absolutely love it, but because it doesn't support BES, and the Microsoft Exchange integration is dodgy as hell.

Maybe in 5 or 10 years -- provided the platform survives -- we will have multiple flavours of Maemo. The business oriented one, versus the teen-facebook-addict one. Or maybe, we'll just have "themes", but instead of having those themes define presets of colours and icons, they'll allow us to easily switch between the different use cases of the device.

One desktop be a personal one, with links to one's music, one's movies and whatever social media it is they like. Another desktop would allow them to have easy access to their boss's incendiary emails, and the last desktop would give them access to their families, instantly. For each of these desktops, the application menu would be different, and how the applications interact with each other would change based on the "profile" currently selected.

5, 10 years, will mark the greatest changes in User Experiences. People will start realising that the way they've been using their phones and computers is archaic, and maybe the majority of users will start understanding what we've been screaming all along.

There you go lcuk. Enough ranting for you?