...Does anybody here think open source can compete with paid for apps...with possibly dozens or paid programmers working on them? Maybe in a few rare cases...Generally though, open source translates to "it works" but that's about it. This will fall EXTREMELY short of the new standard, which is user experience. There are 20 billion phones out there and they all go online...However, only a few will do it smoothly. Enthusiasm is starting to change to dictatorial demands from consumers because of all these choices. It's my way or after the 20 second review you're out. I would love to see the open source community step up their game but it hasn't happened in all this time with Linux, what makes you think it will happen with Maemo?