Regardless of my misrepresentsation of the hierarchy of Maemo.org and Nokia, the premise remains the same.

The facts are plain; see them stated.

- Talk.maemo.org is a pre-installed bookmark in the N900 browser (as is likewise the more-frequently-than-not nonfunctioning Ovi store). It is a website encouragingly made available to all users from their first moments of use of the N900.

- By an overwhelming margin, the majority of the "out-of-the-box" downloads for the N900 come from files hosted at Maemo.org. Furthermore, they are made available to users on that site with big green "download" buttons. The web addresses built-in to the application manager tell a far more convincing story than the one you are trying to tell here.

- The Ovi store has been open for less than a month and contains four dozen free v1.0 toy applications - some of which come preinstalled on the device - and a few dozen nonsense podcasts and videos.

- Maemo Select? Five - five! - applications available for download - three of which are already hosted in the Maemo.org downloads section, one of which is preinstalled on the device. And don't leave out the Wallpapers and Themes sections - both "Coming soon"'.

No, I'm afraid I must disagree with you on all counts. Maemo.org is the proprietary source when concerned with support and development of the N900

These facts clearly cast Maemo.org as the responsible party for the user experience of installable applications. So I return to my original point - make the user experience more transparent on maemo.org, it will be to everyone's benefit. It serves no greater good to keep things archived and buried under arcane methodologies (with the exception of developmental apps and tools, of course).

And it is absurd for you to suggest that the Talk forum is for high-end users only. There is no other authoritative place for the "average N900 user", or anyone else, for that matter, to go. This is the superior tone of which I speak. There is plenty of room on these forums for the beginner and the advanced user alike. It is in no way an exclusive "deep end", although perhaps you would wish it to be so, or choose to perceive it to be such.

Despite my previous misunderstanding of the role of maemo.org, which thanks to you I now better understand to be a community forum rather than the mother-site for the maemo platform (and a proper name rather than an acronym), it still is demonstrable to me that maemo.org is the primary source for information and resources, for all N900 users, and I do not think you can prove it to be otherwise. So, my original point still stands.

And besides, from a marketing standpoint, and a cut-the-Apple-fanboys-off-at-the-knees approach, how cool would it be for the average user to be able to say, when asked "Where did you get that cool app?", with nonchalance, "Oh, it's just something I'm testing for Nokia and the Maemo platform..."