Oh right, that was your point, that we're 4 out of 5 steps of the way in, with 3 OS rewrites behind us and a fourth to come with a new and completely different UI? Yes, this Maemo lark is all going absolutely swimmingly!

Any surprise then, that the "big picture" is one of ordinary end users (and even developers) avoiding Maemo while it remains in a constant state of development flux, with few credible apps (Maemo has a few hundred after FIVE years, Android 20,000+ after 2 years and iPhone 100,000 after 3 years - work it out).

I guess you think it's all going to come together in step 5? Well, maybe it will, I hope it does, but step 4 should be a damned site closer to "complete" than it is right now if that is going to happen.

Don't run away, stand your ground.