I think the common theme on most rants of any the IT is how it doesn't fit a person's lifestyle. The IT in its current iteration isn't meant to be a phone, pda, document editor. There are some strides towards that direction, but I don't think its there yet.

I do wish that Nokia put a lot more resources into developing services and apps for the platform, but I see it this way: Nokia might be a phone giant, but their tablet department is a fraction of what Apple's development team for the iPhone. I mean, seriously, if Apple had to work nonstop for 2 years since the first sketches of the iPhone were carved out and then they STILL had to divert people from the OSX10.5 team (and delay Leopard) to launch the iPhone in time...you have to ask how much Apple was betting the farm on the iPhone by diving directly into the deep end. I get the feeling Nokia is just slowly dipping their toe into the pond, and in doing so, is taking a lot longer to bring something that is palpable to the mass market. Are we still using beta products? Absolutely. However, I don't know why everyone wants these little tablets to be able to run as fast and strong as a computer and have the connectivity of a cellphone.

Nokia might be putting money into developing this thing (which is why people keep asking where the cell phone part is) but it is not part of their core business (yet). I don't see anyone b1itching about why the Asus EEE or the Pepper Pad doesn't have UTMS/EVDO/EDGE/HSDPA/WiMax along with WiFi.

The "it just works" approach to design must feel very simplistic to the end user, but if it was that easy to develop such products, we wouldn't wonder why everyone is drinking the Apple kool-aid.

I do wonder how many people does Apple have employed for the iPhone/iPod Touch and how many Nokia has on their staff for Maemo. Btw, the iPhone never was released with a complete set of tools either. A lot of it is still unfinished and needs refinement, but they did seem to know what to focus on and polish when it was time to get it out the door.