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I seriously doubt it. Between GPS units, Tivos, all sorts of embedded devices, netbooks and desktop PC rollouts, there is a lot of competition for #1 linux device, which is a very good thing!
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Android had something like 3% of the smartphone market in the last quarter, so it's there but it's a much smaller number of sales.
Putting it simply, if just one in ten Nokia smartphones sold next quarter is an N900, then Maemo would already be outselling Android (assuming sales shares stay as they are now in the short term).
One in ten Nokia smartphones isn't as unrealistic as it sounds, the Nokia 5800 (the first touchscreen S60 device) sells about 3 million a quarter so it makes up about one in five Nokia smartphone sales. The N900 would have to sell about half as well as the 5800 to reach one in ten.
Even if it didn't reach such sales figures, the N900 is probably just the start and should be joined by other Maemo models next year with varying specs and prices. It's conceivable that Maemo would eventually take over the Nseries range which would mean one in three Nokia smartphones.
Is there any other computing device that comes with Linux preinstalled which sells in anything close to these numbers?
(A year ago I would have mentioned Asus and Acer but they seem to have gone over entirely to Windows.)