Android catches crap because it reinforces the notion that mobile devices like phones are somehow special, and require software that is completely unlike (and not compatible) with what you have on a standard PC.

We know this to be false, and seeing it continue only makes for wasted effort and a constant back and force in work to go from one platform to another. No other OS runs Android software but Android, not even other Java VMs. Even the *nix back-end is subtly incompatible, using a custom libc.

Maemo, and to a much greater extent Meego, (could) let us avoid this.

Will either fail completely, or be Samsung's replacement for Symbian.