It is perfect at what it is. A tiny linux computer, with wireless data, and some phone capability.

In general, the people who buy it and then hate it want those two flipped : a great phone with some general computer capability. Those people should be fairly happy with an iPhone or Android phone, but they will be losing the openness of maemo/meego - because you can't really have both. In order to ensure smooth phone behavior, thus far its been necessary to neuter some aspects of general computing capability, and to dumb down the OS to protect the phone from the user, and visa versa.

My serious answer to this Q - my next device will likely be one that is stronger on the phone side, even if that means it has to be weaker on the computer side. If that balance exists in some device running meego, fantastic.