I don't get where you got from any part of my statement that somebody is forcing me to buy anything. Allow me to clarify even further...

Maemo hasn't gotten its stuff together in terms of a internet tablet that I whip out from time to time in a lot of regards... it's not a consumer friendly experience since it requires more knowledge than just "plug it in".

And I'm not forced to buy anything. And a bad iPhone install, two iPhones later and that's not happened. A 770 and N810, I've had a bad reflash and a machine that just stopped working for no reason, no error given.

And besides, I've already stated that the iPhone isn't perfect. But my trust for Maemo's repository isn't there at all - remember when it all went down for almost a week, or when Canola was released it went down hard... and what about Ovi, it went down way too easily too. Nokia has not shown it can allocate the proper resources to it's online offerings that become popular nor do they continue to support them for long.

This is what we'd Southerners would call "common sense". But having a phone in a product that I do enjoy, would like to have upgraded, and yet is not going to replace my phone ability to sync up to where I've purchased music, or my contacts, or even my e-mails... it's already fighting a hard battle for a purchase. Nokia's making it even harder. Convergence shouldn't be happening unless it's able to provide something I already use.

And it doesn't. No part of what Nokia offers does what my last three phones did. My tablet experience was vastly different than my phones though. There's a difference. My internet tablet gave me a good screen while away from my desktop. My phone's browsing just plain sucks. So perhaps that's one plus for this frankenstein.

Here's where I'm likely to be more blunt than I should... p@marketing is out of touch.

There, I said it.

Even the Palm Pre has iTunes sync. Maemo... it's nowhere (yet). Can it connect to my Outlook and siphon my calendar? Perhaps not yet. Are there updated versions of Skype, Gizmo, even video chat that works out of the box and have a simplified one-touch, no need to add catalogs installs? If my Maemo experience over the last 2+ years have anything to do with that part... no, it doesn't, and it won't until Harmattan. The lack of support on these devices shows me that I'm good for one release, one update... and end of product life.

I don't mind having a phone that works as it should, but to tie in Maemo and it's abilities - dude, it's a community supported item, not Nokia supported as it stands... then I don't want it in my phone. I actually use my phone for business. I don't use my tablet for business (much).

Simply put, don't put a phone out unless you can show reliably that you've worked out the quirks and bugs that we've all been through in Maemo just to get stuff installed. It does not make for a proper consumer experience. It makes for an enthusiast experience - thus, look at this site. Consumers are SCARED of the tablets - read: the average consumer, not a savvy consumer or geek.

I don't want to be a geek on my phone too. Not unless it was hella stable and won't have a browser that crashes for no reason. Nor the rest of my aforementioned reasons.

Fix Maemo, release a proper tablet that starts the convergence, THEN convince the consumer. Right now, I'm personally not convinced this will work out of box for the average Joe-Blow consumer. Thus, I see a failure in it's approach.