It's obvious people come from different viewpoints. Some people just want a linux toy and don't really care that basic stuff we take for granted doesn't work, which I guess is fine. But that's not how the device is marketed. As a consumer I expect certain things from a multi billion dollar company, for one I expect advertised features to work.

"If it's so basic why don't you do it yourself?" sort of arguments are really hard to take serious. Just as when I buy a MP3 player I expect that I don't have to code the firmware myself, I expect a mobile telephone in the year 2010 to have USSD support out of the box, for example. I expect the camera to don't drop frames. I expect bluetooth headsets to work on a bluetooth enabled device, even while connected over wifi etc etc.

My largest gripe however is that we're stuck with an OS in beta which has already been discontinued. We're not guaranteed all these issues will ever be fixed, because I'm rather certain Maemo 5 will never be completed now that the OS line has been discontinued. The only reason for why Maemo 5 is still on life support is due to the PR disaster it would be to officially abandon it. There's simply no long term value to be built from dedicating development resources to Maemo 5 any longer.