Michael: Great post. I'm stuck doing SQL development so I know about "Can't you snap your fingers and give me results in 3 seconds" syndrome or the dreaded "I need a favour" ("Yeah? I need 3 weeks to accomodate that 'simple' 'favour'"). I think the only comment I've made that could be construed as negative has been that it seems that the flow of new apps has slowed down. There are some that have been on the Maemo 'not yet ready' page for months and are gathering dust. There are also a lot in which they're done to the point where they're semi-stable but need to be Hildonized so the menus are legible... and then they get put on the shelf. It's frustrating to the end users but also probably surprising to them that someone hasn't picked up the project and continued. Also odd that games are the greatest volume of releases.

I think Deja PIM was one of the first non-widget apps that I've seen created directly for the 770. The rest were ports. I think in this capacity it's truly showing itself as a niche product, someone would have to be nuts (or really passionate) to spend umpteen hundred hours creating a native maemo app for a single hardware platform.