Any app you love/run i can do so on nitdroid. However, today i got a link to a youtube video of a live performance of a certain artist. I ripped the audio from the video and stuck it into my music collection. Because i wanted to. And that's the point: My phone does what I want. You have to do what your phone wants. If I want to run any iphone type apps I can via nitdroid. If I want to do Xyz i can. Nitdroid , btw, is the stake in the heart of your apps argument. sorry.
Why don't you upgrade?
first off i had 5 things, you only listed 3. and regarding your rebuttal, 1. mobile pages aside (n9 displays them equal or better mynokiablog.com/2011/06/29/nokia-n9-browser-html5-tests-score-outperforming-ipad-2-sgsii-and-some-desktop-browsers/ ) Safari on IOS just doesn't do what firefox can as normal web 2.0 pages are concerned. 2. i forgot to mention turn your bluetooth off and have it connect to your car automatically. oh also do it without ever pairing it before. 3. not a joke, i wear gloves and just becuase iphone cant do it unless you jailbreak it. 4. while n9 helps me get rid of ads, and prevent inter process data stealing, iphone likes to make it more accessible for ads by targeting them just for you by helping track your intimate details about how you bank with Bofa and like to pay your rent on the train and how much time you spend on facebook etc etc. 5. i dont need Lord itunes for doing smallest things. can you download a mixtape , unrar or unzip it and listen to it, delete the songs you dont like without getting close to a computer? can you get OTA update?
So, what shell does it run? Do you get all the usual bsd utilities and command line tools with it? What scripting tools are available, and can you access normal phone functions from command line? Can you run chroot on it? Is it possible to compile binaries on scratchbox or similar cross-compiling environment for it on an external computer? (I guess it propably needs MAC developers toolchains to compile and link programs..?)
OP, don't forget that the N900 is still progressing and getting better and better with every CSS update : )
Ok, I'll make one more comment: I do take those arguments seriously. The N900 plays all the media I want -- every bit of music, every podcast, every video. (If you must complain that it doesn't run HD video, let me ask why would you want to force the poor thing to run video at resolutions beyond what it can display? I personally re-encode videos to the native size of the devices I use to display them. I did that for my 1st gen iPhone, and I still do for my N900...) And yes, there are endless endless apps of every stripe and color for the iPhone; but can I ask, can you do your social networking or banking tasks from a regular desktop browser? Because the N900 can handle regular desktop webpages. But in any case, yeah, I guess I don't do much appy stuff on my N900. I like to place phone calls, listen to podcasts, and edit files. These tasks don't require the latest hardware. And so, for someone like me, the N900 still beats the iPhone. EDIT: BTW, the Google TV remote control is RF-based, but some of the devices can also accept IR input. In particular, many of the Google TVs manufactured by Sony will also support the use of a Sony remote control. For these, the "Sony TV Keyset 1" setting in Pierogi should work for you.