That would be MeeGo's role. Maemo was constrained in many ways (one model, one manufacturer, small team), but MeeGo *SHOULD* bring all that stuff you miss from Maemo at the scale of (at least) Android, but without being limited to a single class of devices. It's not really about proficiency - sometimes it's just the wrong phone. That's why I asked if you ever used Linux - as your points were roughly what I hear when a long-time Windows users get to work with Linux boxes. It didn't really matter how experienced they were in Windows - in fact, often that experience worked against them as they expected a thing to work in one way, when in fact it did in another (as texrat says different != wrong). It's all a question of scale. I struck me for example when you said Android brought Samsung out of obscurity - even before Android Samsung sold *shiploads* of phones (smartphones even), and even now, the Android/Galaxy sales are just a minority part in their overall business. It's just that they were not aiming at the gadget/app people as the target audience, and that's why you never heard of them prior to experimenting with Android. PS. One tiny remark - Maemo was born loong before iOS and Android - not as a response to them (the N800 was already out when the iPhone was released and the N810 was released waaay before the first Android). If anything, the shame is that THAT advantage (especially considering the newly-rediscovered-by-Apple tablet market) was not capitalized upon.