That question is just too good to let pass.

I don't look at MeeGo as the enemy - but I kind of look at MeeGo as the child that killed it's too young mother before she reached her maturity and full potential.

Well, Maemo is not dead, but it's in a wheelchair and relies on MeeGo to push her around for the rest of her life.

I believe for Nokia, MeeGo makes sense.

I also believe that owners of a Maemo phone would have more Maemo specific software and updates to existing software in the repositories right now, right this minute, if it wasn't for the rise of Qt as the new star that developers are being told they(/we) want to go towards, but have no cleared path to yet.

Furthermore, I believe that the Qt version on official Maemo and the Qt version on official MeeGo will be the same Qt version only for so long. When that ends, all of the N900/MeeGo/Qt ecosystem will become the /MeeGo/Qt ecosystem. At which point what's left of the platform would be jumping over on unofficial MeeGo @ N900.

Compared to a world with Maemo 6 in it, I believe the N900 late in the product cycle will be more reliant on community hacks - like the Mer failure but also the Easy Debian success - than if "step 5 of 5" had been in the same general direction as step 4.

So basically, I still feel that I get less for my money - right NOW and also in later phases when Qt evolves - in the N900 because of MeeGo. This makes it hard for me to be enthusiastic about MeeGo, and honestly, Maemo is the only current link between me and the Nokia product portfolio.

Some like the daughter, some like the mother. I wish now I'd started off with another analogy.