What will make MeeGo be adopted be successful in the smartphone market where the Nokia n900 wasn't. What will make average smartphone users adopt Meego not just users who want to tinker there device. Here is a series of open ended questions any answer is welcome.

• There are already so many platforms out there. Many people would say oh MeeGo is just another Linux based platform. Why would developers want to develop for MeeGo?
• What killer feature does MeeGo have that will make people want to use it. For example Android has integration with Google services, iPhone has Apple's ecosystem, Webos has its superb multitasking and notifications, and Blackberry has excellent email and messaging services.
• Why would OEMS want to adopt MeeGo?
• Why would network operators want to sell phones using
  MeeGo?
• Does MeeGo really have a future?
• Will MeeGo have basic applications such as facebook, foursquare, Skype, twitter, Adobe Flash etc?

So just some simple questions. Feel free to answer.

1. developers that already develop for linux will find it interesting,
2. we'll see, for now - large community sick off apple's ecosystem (?), new kid on the block, sick of giving your data to google, curiosity ?
3. corporate strategy, marketing, intel, nokia,
4. because they want to 'sell' thus gain profit,
5. we will know in few years...

Well thanks keep the answers coming.

People will not develop for MeeGo - they will develop for Qt. MeeGo is just the best vehicle for platforms on high-end devices. It's not MeeGo for MeeGo's sake. Via Qt, developers can target hundreds of millions of users, MeeGo ones will just be the coolest ones

One major difference is that MeeGo is not a smartphone OS. It is a mobile OS, for everything from mobile phones through cars to netbooks, giving a potential for a vastly larger ecosystem. All competing platforms OTOH are islands, with their own very specific technologies and walled gardens, with minimum spread to non-phone form factors. On top of that, MeeGo IS continuing the computer-in-your-hand paradigm (hopefully better executed than some aspects of earlier Maemos ). You wrote what current OSes are known for, but that doesn't mean a new guy can't best them at their own game, i.e. offer better multitasking than webOS, grow a bigger ecosystem of their own, etc.

This is probably the biggest advantage, though - MeeGo is the only OS that is (when fully rolled out) not controlled by a single company and can be applied to ANY mobile device, no royalties or strings attached like in the case of Google. OEMs were mighty angry when the Nexus came out because that hurt their strategies badly - nobody complained publicly though, as you don't want to get the top dog angry.

This is more a vendor question - they will sell whatever popular phone a vendor they have a good deal with offers. No OS has an advantage in that sense.

The strategy is there, it's still way too early to tell if it will play out. Considering it's the most open OS on offer today, I sure hope it does

No, but probably not it in the sense you ask. MeeGo is an OS foremost and not the end product most people will actually use, it's like asking will Windows have facebook or twitter ? It's almost certain some vendor implementations will include all that, but it's not a MeeGo question per se.

Well keep the answers coming I'm liking what I see.

Well lets hope MeeGo doesn't fail like WebOs.

Support and constant updates from Nokia. Marketing. Developer Support.

How do we know Nokia's support will be any better than Htc's or Motorola's.

Nokia not stopping development and support just 8 months after release would be a good start.

We don't. But because Meego is an open source OS hosted by the Linux Foundation and so not dependent on any one company, it will matter much less.