A very peculiar side effect that I alluded to in my opening statement is that the Intel/Moblin team is expected to manage the core/kernel development and support of the potentially largest(-shipping) platform of ARM-based mobile devices!

While Nokia's (ex-Maemo) UI+Tools team has no motive for sabotaging usability on non-Nokia devices, Intel OTOH has a glaringly obvious motive in sabotaging Meego's core ARM-support in various ways, including ignoring or late inclusion of ARM-platform patches or favouring x86 in low-level architectural decisions...