I've been thinking more about this today.

In 1999 I got myself a desktop pc. It wasn't the top spec but it was ok. It ha the same processor clock speed that the n900 has. It did have a graphics card (they didn't all have a seperate '3d' one back then.) It was a voodoo2, which was good but the ram and clock speed were well below the spec of what's in an n900 It had a 6gb hard drive, compared to 32gb.

I thought that pc was the 'bees knees'. I could play loads of cool games and office stuff etc, and surf the web.
Looking at what's in my other pocket now. 2 and a half years going on 3 years later, a top spec device, the galaxy note has a dual core processor at 1.2ghz(is that right?itams something like that) A much higher spec graphics processor, and a beautiful screen. Still got a large ish hard drive, but the price of sd cards is pretty low now anyway. It does't have a keyboard, and it doesn't have something you can use like a mouse. N900 didn't really either but you could swipe in a mouse pointer so it had some of the functionality. It does take over some of the functions of my pc even today.

So looking at this set of facts, you'd think things would have moved on to where you'd have something better than my old pc that fits in your pocket. Sadly that's not the case. I believe that in the future, people will look back at the high point of pocket computing that was the n900, and the 'dark ages' that seemed to follow afterwards, where devices went backwards, because of using inferior operating systems and software. It will look like a huge financial mistake by nokia, who could have conquered the world with this. Making their money by selling more software and games etc. Then every 2 years or so updating the hardware with a new, faster device, and making sure there are plenty of 3rd party people supporting the use of it's browser and apps etc. This is actually sounding a little like what apple do actually. Well, it works for them and the OS is crap, anddevices not as good, so why wouldn't it work with a good device/OS.

Anyway I've probably gone way off topic now and written half of war and peace. Sorry about that