Don't forget you're potentially talking to folks that's owned multiple Maemo devices, only to have them short ended because Nokia just wanted to push out something new.

770, N800, N810, N810 WiMax, N900... in order, they had OS 2005/06, OS 2007/08/Diablo, OS 2008/Diablo, OS 2008/Diablo, Maemo 5. The 770 had OS 2007/08 Hacker Editions (they were horrible, didn't have the Flash plugin), N800/N810 had... well, nothing. Mer, Mer^2 never happened. And the N900... par for the course with the prior generation so far.

My point is that the upgrade path(s) on the Maemo devices has been real limited - 13 months maximum in most instances. Compared to some other folks, that's a lot. To some others, that's minor. The fact it's being sold as a (prior generations) internet tablet or (present generation) a mobile computer, the lack of coherent communication in regards to upgrades plain suck.

And I know the age-old point a finger at the few Android 1.6 phones that have yet to receive an update. Most were cheap, not $600+ dollars like the N900, but those users are basically screwed. I have a Samsung Captivate. If it weren't for XDA Developers, I wouldn't have 2.2.1, I'm playing with a 2.3.1 alpha right now, and it's about as unofficial as you can get.

If anything, I was really expecting that same level of stuff from this community. Hasn't happened at all.

Symbian... I'm not a fan. And all of the stuff happening around it right now - have ensured that I will not put it on my radar. I've liked Maemo from the moment I touched a 770. I've liked this forum the moment since I've joined it. That doesn't mean that I cannot state that I am 100% pleased with all that I see.

Compared to XDA, the output of stuff here is pretty minor on the OS side. Compared to anybody else though, the developers are (or were) creating apps and functionality that just didn't exist. Even that has slowed down to a crawl.