GeneralAntilles, All I'm saying is if they are going to build hardware and bundle software with it, it should be good quality. I will tinker with KDE and Debian on the N800. I like that. But these devices give Average Joe the impression that it is a IT with a PIM and camera, and the potential for at least a partial office suite. They give this impression by what software they bundles with it, which isn't any good.
I think the result is that they make the company look bad, and they make Linux in general look bad. Average Joe doesn't care about the potential of the device. They care that their contact app works how they expect it to. That expectation was built from years of using other PIM and contact apps. If Nokia wants to alter that expectation, they have to do it by being better, not worse. Same for everything else.
When Average Joe sees that the software sucks, he sees that the device sucks, Nokia sucks, the people who designed it sucks, and the developers who wrote all that junk software suck.
I am trying to encourage Nokia to not make the same mistake a 4th time. The fact that Nokia can put out such a joke 3 times and STILL have people salivating at their next attempt is a testament to the potential and value of the Nxxx series. Trouble is, the N900 may be their last chance to get it right, before the competition sees the value and beats them at their own game.
I just want them to release a product that doesn't suck in SO many ways. It cant suck as a PIM if there are no PIM functions....