I am thinking of getting n900 soon even though I know there are only about 1000 apps for maemo as compared to 100,000 apps for android and 300,000 apps for iphone. While I agree that those other platforms got quite a lot of useless or unimportant apps, yet if we have to count the useful and great apps(no repetition of very similar app), I am sure maemo still lags and its a result of nokia's move towards meego which if wasn't the case then now we would have at least 10 times more apps to choose from. And big guys, while I agree I won't need 100 apps just to chat (yahoo, hotmail, gmail etc) at least 5 would have been great because each one will have their own speciality, some might consume less data, other might be less memory hungry(and hence battery), some might be darn fancy, some might have great video/voice chat functionality and so forth.

I would like to thank a lot and I mean a lot to the developers and users of this talk for doing their best and while it would have been great if there were big software companies in the race to port their existing apps as well as creating new apps for maemo, what this community has done is never less than brilliant. Hats off to you guys.

What convinced me to think of getting n900 is hopefully fully working meego from nokia(although unofficially) or this community and fully working android(I guess its almost there) which will open the gates to get to the ocean of apps.

One more thing is although maemo and meego as well as symbian^3 and other platforms will be sharing qt, I still doubt that most of the developers who write app for symbian^3 and meego will make one for n900 as well. Yet lets see how it goes. Meanwhile I am gonna try to learn basics of nokia qt but big problem here is the slow internet to download 900+mb file from virtually unresumeable link generated from qt.nokia.com. I wish they have let us download it from their ftp.