1) In the "developed" world, we spell it "buggy Symbian crap", not otherwise ("Symbian buggy crap"). 2) People want Droids and iPhones, because those are what corporations try to sell them ("ecosystems" a.k.a. vendor lock-in), hence why those corporations invest heavily in marketing. Most people are driven by marketing / commercials, not by interest / curiosity / technical abilities. 3) Maemo received almost no marketing because of reasons already talked over and over. Now go figure out the most important dependency between 2) and 3). 4) Droids and iPhones provide lesser functionality and easier handling / more visible polishing ("shiny GUI FX and high FPS"), that's the second most important portion of their success story, among way more marketing / a larger salesforce. Most people are technically inept (see trisha02 for an example).