That's completely different than "discouraged from developing for Maemo" . If you look back to history, we announced LinuxTag 2008 that next Maemo platform, Harmattan will be Qt based so going to Qt is no longer any new issue. We had Qt for Maemo 5 since beginning, we supplied it with first beta SDK beginning of 2009. Harmattan was at beginning called as Maemo6 and in practice going to MeeGo was in technical sense just renaming it. MeeGo was in practice merge of Maemo and Moblin and both of them were based on same components, so no major change were needed. If you today develop for N900/Maemo5 using Qt, Qt Quick, Qt Quick Components and Qt Mobility, your application will run unmodified in MeeGo. Nokia has given information about Maemo development directions a log time ago, we have also provided developer viesions of new technologies as early as possible so that any new technology won't become as surprise to developers. Kate