This planet is full of ignorant and impolite people. On the Internet some of the ignorants become lurkers and some of the stupid ones act worse than they do in real life. Any loosely moderated Internet forum will be as good as its worst posters are. Face it.

Now, maybe the iPhone forum is “nice” because they don't have much to talk about? Do they compare it to competitors every 10 posts like we do, for example?... And do iPhone users feel the need for lacking features, and feel that they can discuss that with other users and developers? I doubt it, I bet they are a bunch of lambs waiting for the messias to come back with god-given apps from the top of the Olympus.

Are there open source projects for iPhone applications? Do they go on having significantly less internal conflicts than it happens in any normal floss project? How come?...

If childish behavior and sarcasm is a necessary colateral effect of doing things they way it's done in Maemo instead of the Apple way (and others), I say it's a small price to pay, and “yes please”.

The Iphone is ugly. Maemo is fat. But we can diet...