All great. But nothing physical, nor actual shown... the best tools don't exactly instill faith in most geeks.

I remember when BeOS had 64-bit journaling and the best media file system on top of a kernel based OS, a terminal, native C++ compiling. Hell, I bought r4 and r5 - and still run it via VMWare.

And yet... it died.

Nokia needs to show something. Qt isn't going to do much more than tell me that I can develop for it. Doesn't tell me that stuff has been developed that will keep my attention on that platform. Or that many vendors, and I don't mean the release once never update variety (read: Skype, Real, and whomever has done so on Maemo 4 and Maemo 5 by releasing once and never updating or expanding their offerings... that app was paid for, once and they never came back - think about it)

I'm not truly convinced and I need plain, hard, awesome looking everything. Samsung came out with a 4.5 Super AMOLED, 1.2ghz Hummingbird w/ 1gb phone and a 8mp back camera. That's impressive hardware.

Google showed off Android 3.0 for tablets... and it alongside the QNX based Playbook by RIM looks impressive.

And all I've seen so far... Qt got updated or something is coming. MeeGo 1.2 is coming in April - 1.1 was not really all that impressive. And no vendor announcements - I don't mean the impressive OEM announcements - and I'm... not really excited about MeeGo.

Sure... it's open. It's coming. But it's gonna take a long friggin' time for it to attract attention from more than just the diehard Nokia or Linux fan. And with Nokia's inability to commit to one iteration of Maemo past 13 months of official support (less with Maemo 5) then honestly my patience and enthusiasm have hit new lows for MeeGo.

And I'm darn willing to bet I'm not the only person thinking like that. And I'm quite sure some folks will continue to carry the torch for MeeGo; but it's gonna take a demo of damn near biblical proportions for me to gather any excitement.