Comment by zxspectrum1982

I did use Qtopia. I found it a lot better than Symbian, and it was available. Nokia should have scrapped Maemo the moment they acquired Trolltech and rebase it on top of Qtopia. E. g. by adding X11 compatibility, if that's what they wanted to make ports of Linux applications easier. Nokia was essentially crawling with Maemo while Android and iOS where already walking. By the time Nokia walked with the N9, Android and iOS where running.

The burning platform memo was the worst of all: lots and lots of mobile app developers intended to develop for Maemo as the third platform because Nokia was still a huge leader and they trusted Nokia. The moment Elop announced Nokia was shifting to Windows Phone, with phones months away, and no possibility of reusing any code from another platform (only .NET allowed, no way to reuse any C/C++ base they were sharing on Android and iOS), that was the moment everybody dropped Nokia. Suicide.