could they have done it on purpose? i've had my hands on an iphone for a little and now i feel the n900 scrolls similarly to how an iphone does (which i hate). perhaps the majority of people who did the online n900 survey said they like the current scrolling better?
Looking at the history of src/tidy/tidy-finger-scroll.c at http://maemo.gitorious.org/fremantle...inger-scroll.c we find the two changes, namely http://maemo.gitorious.org/fremantle...ode=sidebyside and http://maemo.gitorious.org/fremantle...ode=sidebyside