Watch out a bit for more than a single reason.
We may on one hand like the phones. But we also have reasons to not like them. Thing like:
- what happend to commercial applications when Nokia dropped Maemo?
- phone dying from empty battery - beeping in handsfree ear-buds hanging around my neck
- phone sometimes dying because one of the Hildon processes decides to consume 100% CPU, eating batteries
- phone sometimes refusing to connect GPRS or W-Lan until switched offline/online
- phone sometimes either stopping to receive SMS - or at least stopping to announce them
- phone unsafe while driving because no voice-controlled dial-out or voice announces of incomming caller - why did my N95 had to die on me .
- unexpected activation of audio that may drain a BT handsfree even when phone isn't used and not expected to do anything.
- media player sometimes refusing to play - just switches play/pause. Stepping next track and then back to previous track makes it play the track.
- sometimes playing music in phone despite BT handsfree registered and playing screen touch sounds.
- some mails impossible to view - maybe unsupported UTF8 character.
- ...

Most people here selected the N900 because the concept matches our needs.

What Nokia marketing and product management must think about is the expectations people have when they buy a phone like the N900. It's wonderful to be able to write own programs. But it is equally wonderful to have all base functionallity functioning. And an application store that does contain extra applications for people who don't develop their own.

But back to multitasking - maybe the phone should have an easy interface to present "cost" from using different applications.

We may want a lot of applications to be instantly available in a specific state, which is the reason we don't end it before switching to next application. But at the same time, we want as low power consumption as possible while not using the applications.

Better multitasking means more applications being used. But this gives more danger of a wild process quickly eating the remaining battery which may be devastating on a business trip. Not a marketing issue, but a phone that could allow individual quota for each application would really be nice.

If marketing wants very high ratings from customer polls, marketing should spend time with product management and discuss the concept of goodwill.

End of rambling