It may, but the fundamental issues we've had with Maemo wouldn't go away. Everyone would still be complaining about a lack of post-purchase support, which is where Nokia falls down. Many hardware vendors are nervous about just that. - Google is put in a position of power. - They want to have some sort of uniqueness in their ecosystem. - They also want to leverage Qt. I don't see it happening, especially as long as Google has exclusive control over the OS.