"The Future Contest", definitely not for developers. If you are a serious Maemo developer I invite you to think seriously on "The Future Collaboration". Symbian and Maemo will power different devices and will address different markets, but in terms of APIs the trend is to converge.

You are seeing the Qt releases, which are the backbone of this strategy. Be prepared for a cross-platform Web Runtime running on top of Qt's WebKit (probably with a straightforward porting path to the rest of similar Web runtimes out there).

Yes, we know that Symbian and Maemo are bulding different layers on top of Qt but expect common sense for developers there as well. Wait for the SDK releases and you will see.

I can imagine most of you (and many more to come) selecting Maemo as primary platform for development thanks to its openness, flexibility and the cool powerful devices. But as much as you love Maemo it would be a mistake (or your own personal choice) to restrict your audience to Maemo users when you will have millions of API compatible terminals out there.