Maemo competing against ios and android ...yes.
WITH Nokia...no.
They aren't interested at this juncture...
and if they had their mitts on maemo again ...what more would they do to/ with it?
(shudder)
No...I think it much better that maemo goes it alone...
There is more chance of surviving and thriving than with Nokia.
Don't get me wrong...Nokia did exceptional by maemo up until those last few years....Perhaps there are other Entities that would do a better job...than Nokia did in their last few years with their grip on maemo
As far as market relevance goes...yes...in the past maemo-meego really occupied a miniscule percentage of the market.
But the old rules are gone.
More and more people want control over their devices.
Of course some will always wish devices that they don't have to think about...ergo the smart phone.
But the ignorantly content applecart has been upset by snowden and others. The rules have/ are changed/ changing.
maemo-meego has opportunity to be very relevant.
More and more.
We still have people joining TMO...why?
Heck...lately on ebay I have closely watched the prices for n800's and n810's....and they have been going up.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Nokia-N-Serie...item462596707c

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Nokia-N-Serie...item2a450ce928

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Nokia-N-Serie...item35ddceeb25

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Nokia-N-Serie...item58b6512f1e

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Nokia-N-Serie...item3f3aea5f72
They went in the last 2 months normally from $25-$50 plus shipping (which unto itself is remarkable frankly...)...up to $65-$125-$200-and even above $300 (definitely people trying to take advantage...mind there are still some sane prices available still...) and that is for a 2007-2008 device...why?

A desire for an "understandable" device...
User dissatisfaction with marketplace standards....
User control ...
are the best answers I can come up with.
Many have spoken of maemo's "golden years" being behind us.
The same for the n8x0's.
Yes...the prices rising to such heights ..is..well...quite mad ..but I think it indicative of a resurgence in what I was speaking long ago on. It may be the end of Nokia. But it is hardly the end of the n770 selling at prices in excess of $70 and then shipping...nor the n8x0 selling for what it is currently....perhaps an n900 in decent shape will command in comparison an even madder price than what I am seing for the n8x0's currently. Perhaps the price is relevant to the desire for bigger keypads and slightly larger screens and a simpler more manageable operating system....time will tell. Perhaps I am wrong completely and it is all a "blip" soon to be forgotten...but I don't think so.
Weirdly interesting times hm?