The browser has been worked on very hard by a long time Mozilla developer who has worked for Nokia on the tablets for a few years and is very active (and vocal!) in the community (both in bugzilla and IRC). It's a shame there aren't a dozen more like him.

There are a few other Nokia developers active in Bugzilla and on the mailing lists, and again they do sterling work but they can't spare the time to work on every part of the platform and I still get the impression that resources on Maemo remain tight so some applications are overlooked and/or farmed out where the quality suffers.

After 5 years of development I'm still disappointed to see that Nokia haven't yet produced a tablet that isn't being constantly developed from the ground up - each new Maemo OS seems like a rewrite with scant regard for backward compatibility as the specification is torn up and rewritten with new frameworks, new UIs etc. It feels like we're just beta testing this OS and will never be see the fruits of our labours (ie. our testing and bug reporting resulting in improved software) unless we buy the next device as well.

Android in less time has evolved to a point where it surpasses Maemo and is now targeting big screen netbooks and even set top boxes, and I certainly hoped Nokia could take Maemo into the netbook segment but it's probably too late for that now.