What i find interesting/odd in this discussion is the focus on the OS. I am a Linux guy, so for me indeed it matters but likely not for the mass market. Here it takes two things:
1. a nice user interface. Here meego may be ok. I have not really looked into it but I presume I can live with it.
2. this is applications/applications/applications, about which nobody seems to talk. I dont a user interface, its applications that get the job done. And for the highend user there is a standard set, about which Nokia should by now have clue of what they need to look like: these are calendars,todo, and mailing, together with sync capability.
I would love to keep the skype/sms/mailintegration of the contacts in Maemo and have the lacking parts filled in (they just need to copy the capabilities from the symbian line, I am sure they have proper stuff there).

Meego as such is a kernel some middleware and 4 applications about which I have not heard a thing.

Am I missing something somewhere?