My 2¢: I welcome the move, provided things are as open or more so than with maemo. Maemo's not been perfect in terms of Freedom (note the capital), but it's been lightyears beyond other platforms in the mobile space. I hope this continues. In particular for me, I hope to keep having good access to floating-point accelerators (DSP, GPU, etc.) So I'm hopeful (but also cynical, from years of bitter experience.