He seems to have disappeared recently.

Although I'd say the 770 *doesn't* ignore power users (can get root, lots of Linuxy open goodness for people who know what they're doing). Mike's problem, if I'm so bold as to describe it, is he wants the things the power users can do without being a power user - which is fine, but it'll take time for the power users to produce pretty GUI frontends to things like changing the boot screen, enabling USB host mode on demand, setting up swap etc.

He also seems to have suffered from a litany of bugs/deficiencies (some of which I've encountered, some of which I haven't) - which is to be expected from a v1 device (or "v.2" if we believe the sticker on the box ;-)) less than 4 months after its launch.

The changes in IT-2006 (improved application installer - including handling of dependencies; better default menu layout (from what I can gather); better Hildon API making porting existing apps easier; officially support VoIP and IM; ...) all look to improve the 770 muchly :-)